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I don't have IE6 installed on any of my computers any more, so I can't tell if my personal website's funky stretching banner works properly on it. Can anyone with IE6 or any other offbeat browsers check out my homepage at http://www.stardestroyer.net/Mike/ and tell me if it works properly? It's obsolete but plenty of people still use it.

PS. The banner at the top of the screen is supposed to grow or shrink as you resize the browser window, without distorting the letters or the picture of Rebecca and me at the right. It's made of two pieces, and there's not supposed to be a gap between the two pieces. The title is supposed to be overlaid on top of the banner in white lettering.

EDIT: I followed Starglider's suggestion and replaced the Flash slideshow with a JavaScript slideshow. It works OK on my Firefox and Konqueror browsers.

Slower loading then prior page, but works in Opera 9.21. The movie works in Opera 9.21 but not in IE7(atleast not for me), the text displays fine in IE7.

EDIT: Nevermind, movie works in IE7, just took it's sweet time loading the applet.

Ace Pace wrote:Slower loading then prior page, but works in Opera 9.21. The movie works in Opera 9.21 but not in IE7(atleast not for me), the text displays fine in IE7.

EDIT: Nevermind, movie works in IE7, just took it's sweet time loading the applet.

Yeah, I'm kind of messing around with the movie. There has to be a better way to do an image slideshow than to make a Flash movie. I was more concerned about whether that banner looks right.

Banner looks fine, why wouldn't it?

Darth Wong wrote:I don't have IE6 installed on any of my computers any more, so I can't tell if my personal website's funky stretching banner works properly on it. Can anyone with IE6 or any other offbeat browsers check out my homepage at http://www.stardestroyer.net/Mike/ and tell me if it works properly?

Works fine in IE6. However;

PS. The banner at the top of the screen is supposed to grow or shrink as you resize the browser window, without distorting the letters or the picture of Rebecca and me at the right. It's made of two pieces, and there's not supposed to be a gap between the two pieces.

it looks very stretched at a window size of 1280x1024 or above. If you'd like I could write some javascript that selects between two or three versions of the streched image based on the window width (falling back to the default in the unlikely event that there's no JS support).

Yeah, I'm kind of messing around with the movie. There has to be a better way to do an image slideshow than to make a Flash movie.

Again, normally I'd do this in Javascript (assuming it doesn't need any fancy fades or wipes), easier to add/remove images that way too. Any browser that supports flash will support JS. I'll write some code if you'd like, though you can get this kind of thing from hundreds of 'JS code snippet' sites out there.

Ace Pace wrote:Banner looks fine, why wouldn't it?

The first time I made the page, the banner worked on Firefox but not on IE. I had to tweak it so it would work on IE, because IE7 still doesn't seem to recognize CSS properly. There was a gap in the banner.

Darth Wong wrote:

Ace Pace wrote:Banner looks fine, why wouldn't it?

The first time I made the page, the banner worked on Firefox but not on IE. I had to tweak it so it would work on IE, because IE7 still doesn't seem to recognize CSS properly. There was a gap in the banner.

Well, works fine now.

Starglider wrote:Asuming it doesn't need any fancy fades or wipes), easier to add/remove images that way too. Any browser that supports flash will support JS. I'll write some code if you'd like, though you can get this kind of thing from hundreds of 'JS code snippet' sites out there.

You can use fades w/ CSS opacity.

seems to work fine on my out-dated laptop. That is kind of wierd seeing that finger of land shrink and stretch.

Opera 9.10 on OSX is fine with it.

From a purely aesthetic standpoint, I like the banner (which displays fine in Opera 9.2 in Windows...and no, I'm not going to go through the hassle of finding a box that still has IE6 on it to test it for you). The design of the banner adds a human quality to the website which is both uncommon and refreshing.

With Mozilla 1.7.12 I got an error message: "Shockwave Flash - the plugin performed an illegal operation. You are strongly advised to restart navigator".

However, it seems to work fine and the browser hasn't crashed (as it is prone to do).

Camino (mozilla)/OSX: Works fine.
Firefox (mozilla)/OSX: Works fine.
Safari/OSX: Works fine.
Opera/OSX: Works fine.

Looks okay here, though I grant there's likely a browser I haven't used.

Works ok on IE 6.0.2900.2180. It'll only shrink down to around 500 pixels wide, and then it becomes a "hard" banner if shrunk smaller. Firefox will shrink it any size.

I didn't even realize I still had IE on this computer until I went hunting for it.

IE7, Safari 3 beta and Firefox 2 all seem to render it well.

Just for kicks, I tried it out on opera-mini (the latest relese of v3 and v4 beta). In v3 and v4's "fit to width" mode it displaysthe banner at the top with the text below it and the picture of the two of you below that. In normal viewing mode, v4 displays it fine, except that since the screen on my phone is so small, the text and picture overlap. Even in fit to width mode, however, it is a nice effect.

Following Starglider's suggestion, I replaced the Flash slideshow movie with a Javascript slideshow, from JonDesign. This new one is a lot slicker than a Flash movie slideshow. It even has fade transitions and captions. Hopefully it works on all browsers.

PS. What happens if someone's browser doesn't support JavaScript?

Darth Wong wrote:PS. What happens if someone's browser doesn't support JavaScript?

The slideshow box just doesn't appear, you get a page full of text instead.

Whenever there are three lines of text in the caption, part of the bottom line is cut off.

Darth Wong wrote:Following Starglider's suggestion, I replaced the Flash slideshow movie with a Javascript slideshow, from JonDesign. This new one is a lot slicker than a Flash movie slideshow. It even has fade transitions and captions. Hopefully it works on all browsers.

PS. What happens if someone's browser doesn't support JavaScript?

If you want something else to be displayed when there is no JavaScript support, you can use the <noscript> tag. You could use it to display a static image and regular text instead, for instance.

Starglider wrote:

Darth Wong wrote:PS. What happens if someone's browser doesn't support JavaScript?

The slideshow box just doesn't appear, you get a page full of text instead.

Yup. I use Firefox 2 with both XP and OS X and have all scripting disabled by default. Until I temporarily allowed sd.net, I saw a page full of text. (In fact, I had to think about it for a bit before I realized that the long banner at the top of the page was static, and I was missing the banner in question.)

Nice banner, and the page looks and works fine with or w/o.

http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page is useful for testnig pages under Linux.