[thelist] Javascript on the fly ... not flying - SOLUTION sorta and question

Mon Aug 12 02:58:01 CDT 2002

I changed the name of my test file (services_new.html) back to services.html and uploaded it quickly to the site early this morn. Considering the hour, I thought 'twould be a good time to do this. Well, voila, on the fly ~is~ flying again. So it did have something to do with both the html and images dir files being situated at the root level rather than 1 level down. How confusing. Seems the calling is being done from the root level only.

It's because I don't understand how these files are being generated. As an example, the code below creates a MUCH bigger version of the formdesign.gif image (whose size is 200x245). When I first looked in the Images dir I couldn't find a formdesign_I.gif or any of its fellow _I gifs that end up being called. No such animals! Are they lurking somewhere?

<a href="javascript:makeImgWindow('formdesign_l.gif','Form Design')">

Could someone explain how this works?

And thanks for your help, Ion and Kid.

Best,
Sharon

> On Sunday, August 11, 2002 3:54 PM Kid wrote:
>
> > I found that many image rotating javascripts worked in IE or NS only.
> >
> > That could be the problem.  Another thing is some javascript code
> > breaks if it line wraps.
>
>     Don't think that's the problem. It is already a working script on the present site which I tested out in IE5.5, N6.2 and NN4.7. I just can't get it to work now. I essentially haven't even touched the script except to separate it from the rest of the scripting code on the current Services page (which code has nothing to do with this script from what I can tell) ... and all that code is now in a remote.js file. By the way, I tried this out leaving all the present scripts intact in the <head> tag, erasing the remote.js file from the <head>, etc. In other words, leaving it the same except taking out any reference to a .css file (which shouldn't affect calling the images, I think). Won't work.
>
>     A real mystery at this point. I'm thinking of removing the DTD and seeing what happens.
> >
> > At 3:37 PM -0700 8/11/02, Sharon F. Malone wrote:
> > >Have a ~major~ problem with one page only, a page that calls images
> > >on the fly (in the lefthand column underneath the navigation). I
> > >can't get the images to display.
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