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I'd just gotten the basics up for a website I've been working on for my mother's senior tap group --- I was feeling pretty good about what I came up with --- and then a member tells me when she clicks on the links nothing happens!!! Same thing with her friend. They both have IMAC's; Version 10.2.3 operating systems that are fairly new with fast dial up modems. I have an IBM compatable and have no familiarity with MAC's. So here I am, hoping someone here can help me.
I write my own HTML in notepad, but the javascript I mostly get at free javascript websites and alter to fit. I have a script for "firework sparks" I'm using on many of the pages that we have narrowed down to the possible problem... Here is my website: http://fabulousflappers.org. Here is a page without the "sparks" http://fabulousflapp...wsarticles.html
Is there some code I can add or alter to make this work without geting rid of the sparks? Are all MACS unable to navigate on my website???? I hope some of you will take a look and let me know how extensive this problem is, and what I can do!
Thank you in advance for any help!
Sabrina Magnisi
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Help! IMAC's can't navigate on my website
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Posted 28 September 2003 - 10:29 PM
I guess you must be working on your website. Because I'm getting "Page cannot be displayed" and I'm on WindowsXP right now.
The surest solution to your problem is to make sure your web site is standards compliant. That means using standard Java, not MS "enhanced" junk. Which the fireworks script might be. We would need more info as to what the Mac users are exactly having difficulty with to be of further help.
The surest solution to your problem is to make sure your web site is standards compliant. That means using standard Java, not MS "enhanced" junk. Which the fireworks script might be. We would need more info as to what the Mac users are exactly having difficulty with to be of further help.
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Posted 29 September 2003 - 10:42 AM
Oh, I see what happened, the period at the end of the sentence got attached to the link I gave. Click on this link (no period), it should take you there:
http://fabulousflappers.org
I have gotten some feedback from a neighbor who told me that it looked like the javascripts that I cut and pasted are in conflict with each other in some things --- evidently window is more forgiving than MAC's are about this? I don't know javascript, I just follow the directions --- how do I figure this out? Where do I start? I just got Dreamweaver 3. I haven't learned it yet (I write my webpages in Notepad) but I did try the "check browsers" function a couple of days ago and what came up was that the script type Javascrip/text is not recognized. This is on the image trail script that attaches the wand, not the spark script! (And yet this works fine in windows, how confusing is this???)
I could sure use some advice how to start sorting this out. Do I need to look for another image trail script, or should it not be a problem that it is not recognized, the real problem is the conflicts which I don't have a clue what they are?
Are there specifics things I can look for within scripts without having to completely learn javascript? I would like to learn it eventually, but I would like this page viewable to MAC's meanwhile!!!!
Sabrina
http://fabulousflappers.org
I have gotten some feedback from a neighbor who told me that it looked like the javascripts that I cut and pasted are in conflict with each other in some things --- evidently window is more forgiving than MAC's are about this? I don't know javascript, I just follow the directions --- how do I figure this out? Where do I start? I just got Dreamweaver 3. I haven't learned it yet (I write my webpages in Notepad) but I did try the "check browsers" function a couple of days ago and what came up was that the script type Javascrip/text is not recognized. This is on the image trail script that attaches the wand, not the spark script! (And yet this works fine in windows, how confusing is this???)
I could sure use some advice how to start sorting this out. Do I need to look for another image trail script, or should it not be a problem that it is not recognized, the real problem is the conflicts which I don't have a clue what they are?
Are there specifics things I can look for within scripts without having to completely learn javascript? I would like to learn it eventually, but I would like this page viewable to MAC's meanwhile!!!!
Sabrina
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Posted 30 September 2003 - 05:44 PM
Welcome to cross platform webdesign.
My suggestion would be to start building it without the fancy javascripts. Combining several javascripts is often a recipe for disaster. Some developers never test their scripts to work across the board. Yes, Internet Explorer is more forgiving, but see the result when I visit the homepage below. TOTAL CRASH. So, take it one step at a time and carefully pick a script, stick in a test corner & ask your group of friends if it works.
Safara 85.5 OS X 10.2.8
The homepage loads. Skip intro does not work. Next page loads. I can click anywhere with a magic wand but nothing happens.
Internet Explorer 5.2
Crashes when I load the homepage!!! Repeatedly.
http://www.fabulousf...g/flappers.html
Loads. No magic wand floating around. It's stuck in the top left corner. Clicking on the image works & gets a new page.
I'll have a peek at the code tomorrow via a pc to see if anything obvious jumps out, without being a javascript expert by far.
icerabbit
PS: this is a G4 cube
My suggestion would be to start building it without the fancy javascripts. Combining several javascripts is often a recipe for disaster. Some developers never test their scripts to work across the board. Yes, Internet Explorer is more forgiving, but see the result when I visit the homepage below. TOTAL CRASH. So, take it one step at a time and carefully pick a script, stick in a test corner & ask your group of friends if it works.
Safara 85.5 OS X 10.2.8
The homepage loads. Skip intro does not work. Next page loads. I can click anywhere with a magic wand but nothing happens.
Internet Explorer 5.2
Crashes when I load the homepage!!! Repeatedly.
http://www.fabulousf...g/flappers.html
Loads. No magic wand floating around. It's stuck in the top left corner. Clicking on the image works & gets a new page.
I'll have a peek at the code tomorrow via a pc to see if anything obvious jumps out, without being a javascript expert by far.
icerabbit
PS: this is a G4 cube
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Posted 01 October 2003 - 11:49 AM
Firstly, thank you so much for checking it out. Your feedback was great.
I have scoured the home page again --- thinking how could the flapper page work and not the home page when they both have the same two javascripts on them. I discovered an html mistake unrelated to the javascipt. So maybe now it won't crash I hope?
I'm so encouraged the picture link worked on your computer. But then there is still the wand that is stuck in the corner. That is a mystery, and the skip intro not working is a mystery...
I had put the skip intro within a table outside of the javascript in basic html. I can't understand why it won't work.
I discovered a friend of mine has a MAC, she does not write any code, but she checked out my site --- she said her computer immediately put up a red screen and then stopped running windows. I put up a link for her (and you or anyone interested) to check and see if the free javascript I cut and pasted for the intro is a problem or if it's something I did when I altered it? I did add italics to the javascript without really knowing how and was thrilled it worked (which maybe it didn't really I'm wondering now.) Could that cause the problems she's having and the skip intro not working for you? I put the html code for italics on either side of the var message.
The link below leads to a link to another intro I put up without the italics.
Here's the link to the original javascript:
http://fabulousflapp...loadsplash.html
I can email my source code to you if you want to take a look --- let me know!
Thanks so much!!
Sabrina
I have scoured the home page again --- thinking how could the flapper page work and not the home page when they both have the same two javascripts on them. I discovered an html mistake unrelated to the javascipt. So maybe now it won't crash I hope?
I'm so encouraged the picture link worked on your computer. But then there is still the wand that is stuck in the corner. That is a mystery, and the skip intro not working is a mystery...
I had put the skip intro within a table outside of the javascript in basic html. I can't understand why it won't work.
I discovered a friend of mine has a MAC, she does not write any code, but she checked out my site --- she said her computer immediately put up a red screen and then stopped running windows. I put up a link for her (and you or anyone interested) to check and see if the free javascript I cut and pasted for the intro is a problem or if it's something I did when I altered it? I did add italics to the javascript without really knowing how and was thrilled it worked (which maybe it didn't really I'm wondering now.) Could that cause the problems she's having and the skip intro not working for you? I put the html code for italics on either side of the var message.
The link below leads to a link to another intro I put up without the italics.
Here's the link to the original javascript:
http://fabulousflapp...loadsplash.html
I can email my source code to you if you want to take a look --- let me know!
Thanks so much!!
Sabrina
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