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bside
6-27-02, 11:07 AM
I have a site that is working just fine on every single machine in the world... excepting macs that are running OS 9.2 or OS X. is anyone aware of any conflicts or things to avoid with html and very amatuer javascript?

the site is www.ornamentea.com.

the problem looks like this:
the index is a frameset with a simple navagation fram on the left and the main content on the right. there appears to be a white box or layer over the top of everything (not supposed to be there). this white box covers up all hypertext, graphics, and links, making rollovers not function at all.

again. this only happens on macs with os 9.2 or os X. i think the version of IE is 5.5 for the mac.

i contacted the support team of where this particular site is hosted (hostmysite.com wasn't my choice to host there :p ) and they were of no help at all. i'm counting on the power of the powweb forum!

there is no cgi on the site, so just viewing the source should give you all the info you need.

thank you very much for you time.

brandon


p.s. if you are on a mac running those operating systems and it DOES work, i would really like to know!
RoyW
6-27-02, 12:39 PM
Well,
It looks OK in IE5 and NS4 on WinNT.
Maybe you could provide a screenshot of what it looks like on the Mac.

Anyway, I looked at your CSS as I was confused by why you did this

<body bgcolor=#FFFFFF onload="preloadImages();" class="body">


Why have a class="body" why not just create a CSS for the body tag?

Also in your "ornastyle.css" your CSS looks like it may have errors

color: 303129

is not a valid color code, these are:-
color:red
color:#04A019

Also
clip: rect( 10px 10px)
Why do you have these clip values?
Insn't rect is supposed to have 4 parameters?
clip: rect(top right bottom left)

I am not sure if this is the problem but you may want to look into correcting them
bside
6-27-02, 12:50 PM
interesting.

i knew this site was a mess... i just had no idea of what degree.

thanks for the heads up on those things.

do you think the "rect" has anything to do with the funky display?

as for a screen shot... i am on a pc and have rare access to a mac -- making it all the more frustrating.

thank you,
brandon
Jess
6-27-02, 01:56 PM
Here's a screen shot of what the page looks like on a Mac - OS 9.1, IE 5.1.4. The left portion of the page is cut off. (White space was cropped from the right and bottom to reduce the image's file size.)
RoyW
6-27-02, 01:57 PM
The clip could be causing the display problems as you have a clip on the "body" (as well as other places) I have never seen a clip on the body. As the clip: rect is incorrect, try removing the clip completely.
RoyW
6-27-02, 02:05 PM
Aha!
I must have posted at exactly the same time as Jess.

Thanks for the screen shot Jess.

Looking at it I would definetly say it is something to do with the clip.

clip: rect(top right bottom left)

So you have
clip: rect(10px 10px)

So the partly formed rectangle starts at top:10 right:10

assume left:default to 0
assume bottom:default to page size

your clip is a 10 pixel wide rectangle - which is what seems to be displayed.

Remove the clip - see what happens
bside
6-27-02, 09:39 PM
damn! you all are the greatest!

i took out the rectangle in the style sheet. i don't know how it got there, but it sure was causing a headache. i think maybe (and this would be great for a dreamweaver thread) that i clicked something in the style sheet editor/wizard.

i really appreciate all the help AND not treating me like an idiot.

i should send you all baked goods.


thanks,
brandon