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IE7 JS Library LOCKS UP IE
I'm using IE7 Javascript library to make my IE6 browser more compliant. The library is being used on a Rainbow Portal .NET v1.5 website which has the layout/theme Zen-starter active. The problem is when I have the library active for the page and mixed with this theme/layout setting IE6 (for Windows XP/2K) completely locks up. Firefox works perfectly fine and quickly.
The webpage attempts to display a dropdown menu making heavy use of CSS and <UL>, <LI> tags. From my investigation, the standard CSS Hover pseudo attrib is being used, which I figure is the reason for IE7's usage (to translate all HOVER attribs to a JS equiv for IE6). I've disabled the IE7 library and IE6 eventually displays the page without locking up. I've used:
TIDY.EXE -ascii -i -f errors.txt -m PageFreeze.htm
to cleanup the HTML and match up any possibly missing tags but still the same effect. I've even copied the text into W3C's Validator without luck. One thing i did notice is that the IE6 browser does freeze preventing me from dragging the scrollbar or anything else within the entire browser (insisting on being END PROCESSED) but eventually (after 5 mins or more) the web page menu system appears, however when i hover my mouse over it the entire screen freezes again, and after another 5 mins or more the menu dropdown appears. This occurs for each menu item i hover over.
Please, does anyone have any clues on why this locking up is occurring and its resolution?
You can see the test page here:
(This page does not freeze IE6 because IE7 Library has been disabled in tags): http://www.spunge.org/~tony/help3/PageNoFreeze.htm
(This page freezes IE6. IE7 Library is enabled in tags): http://www.spunge.org/~tony/help3/PageFreeze.htm
(This page momentarily freezes IE6 but only contains a single menu item): http://www.spunge.org/~tony/help3/PageSingleMenuNoFreeze.htm
The pages need to not freeze and show dropdown menus if all is ok. Just a oddity, notice that when you hover over Government and it underlines the word. It seems to take a second longer than when the underline is placed beneath other words. Also I've tried removing much of the UL/LI menu items and leaving one or two and the freezing of IE has gone down from 5 mins+ to a few seconds and the menu dropdown appears. Again, Im suspecting the depth of the menu system and IE7 library are at fault. But a solution to have the menus in full is what Im after.
Thank you.
The webpage attempts to display a dropdown menu making heavy use of CSS and <UL>, <LI> tags. From my investigation, the standard CSS Hover pseudo attrib is being used, which I figure is the reason for IE7's usage (to translate all HOVER attribs to a JS equiv for IE6). I've disabled the IE7 library and IE6 eventually displays the page without locking up. I've used:
TIDY.EXE -ascii -i -f errors.txt -m PageFreeze.htm
to cleanup the HTML and match up any possibly missing tags but still the same effect. I've even copied the text into W3C's Validator without luck. One thing i did notice is that the IE6 browser does freeze preventing me from dragging the scrollbar or anything else within the entire browser (insisting on being END PROCESSED) but eventually (after 5 mins or more) the web page menu system appears, however when i hover my mouse over it the entire screen freezes again, and after another 5 mins or more the menu dropdown appears. This occurs for each menu item i hover over.
Please, does anyone have any clues on why this locking up is occurring and its resolution?
You can see the test page here:
(This page does not freeze IE6 because IE7 Library has been disabled in tags): http://www.spunge.org/~tony/help3/PageNoFreeze.htm
(This page freezes IE6. IE7 Library is enabled in tags): http://www.spunge.org/~tony/help3/PageFreeze.htm
(This page momentarily freezes IE6 but only contains a single menu item): http://www.spunge.org/~tony/help3/PageSingleMenuNoFreeze.htm
The pages need to not freeze and show dropdown menus if all is ok. Just a oddity, notice that when you hover over Government and it underlines the word. It seems to take a second longer than when the underline is placed beneath other words. Also I've tried removing much of the UL/LI menu items and leaving one or two and the freezing of IE has gone down from 5 mins+ to a few seconds and the menu dropdown appears. Again, Im suspecting the depth of the menu system and IE7 library are at fault. But a solution to have the menus in full is what Im after.
Thank you.
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A tuff little nut to crack eh? I'd appreciate any suggestions
I completely fail to see why you do not use a CSS menu which should work in all newer browser
ASKER
Ok, we determined that IE7 was working just it was processing too much. We just dropped the approach and went all out tables.
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