[Pro] Submenus not showing in IE

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Website works well in safari, chrome and firefox; however, the submenus don’t exist in internet explorer.

I did the transparent.gif file that is placed in the absence of color or images in the background panel, but that was from 2008. needless to say, it didn’t work.

any help would be appreciated.

thanks,
pete

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A link?

David

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Sorry,

There’s more than just the submenu not working but I’m taking one thing at a time.

  1. submenu don’t work (they are under the “seed info” menu.
  2. the three picture carrousel in the dark green area at top isn’t showing.

Here’s the link;
www.scottseed.net

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  1. If you expect two submenu entries under seed, it works fine here in IE11. What IE did you check? Possibly double-check you compatibility settings.

  2. Did you iFrame(d) this carousel? Safari spits out (hundreds) of errors, “blocked a frame …” which can naturally break things. I can’t understand (and never will) framing stuff that belongs into the page-markup. iFrame is dedicated for external (remote) content such as a YouTube video.

But as already said: works here in IE11 (without any further error report.

Cheers

Thomas

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I used IE 5 on a mac. Clients PC don’t show them either. I have no idea what version of IE they are using. I can fix this by adding another page and getting rid of the submenu.

I didn’t Iframe the carousel pictures. they have the action "target show/ hide layer. Can you see the carousel in IE 11? the only iframe are the quotes, radar and DTN market news which are being sent to site by DTN.

What do the, safari “blocked a frame…”, errors do to the visual effects of the iframes? Why can I still see the iframe info if there are errors?

thanks Thomas,
pete

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First, don’t use IE 5 for any form of testing. It’s abandon-ware, and its rendering issues will simply confuse you. It also only runs on OS X 10.2 or .3, can’t recall. Nobody who uses a computer even casually should be dumpster-diving that far back in computer history.

I use VMWare Fusion, and some free test OS images from Microsoft when I don’t want to venture down to my wife’s office to abuse the PCs. Seriously, if you test in Windows 7/ IE 9, or if your target audience is in Asia, Windows XP / IE 8, you will catch all the things you need to worry about.

Finally, the errors you are seeing are security warnings. JavaScript and browsers have the notion of sandboxes baked in. A page may ask questions of the current page, but it isn’t allowed to ask another page in a different window anything at all. This keeps one malicious site from watching you type in your bank password in another window. Iframes, and indeed any other kind of frame, are simply separate browser windows, styled to look like they are together in one window.

Some scripts are written to try to communicate between windows anyway, and I imagine that some browsers fail to protect you, as opposed to the way that Safari does. Otherwise, why would the developers bother to write these scripts? I see this error the most in the context of Facebook “like” buttons.

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I used IE 5 on a mac.

Surprised you have a machine that still runs it! Got to be nearly 15 years old.

Get down to the local library and test there to get real world feedback with a typical Explorer version.

David

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