Half-loaded page problem in IE6 (solved)

Question

Hello,
I had a strange problem where the CSS page would only
half-load only on some computers and only sometimes (all under
IE6). When this problem occured, everything after the Flash content
(integrated in a container layer using SWF object) would not load.
The SWF is light (59 KB) but large in size (776 x 268 px). Another
problem was that the CSS navbar could not display on top of the
Flash (even though I used the opaque then transparency wmode and
set the z-index, the DTD being XHTML transitional). I noticed that
when the visibility of the Flash container layer was set to hidden,
the page would load without any problem. So I decided to set the
visibility to hidden at start and use setInterval() in Javascript
in order to set the visibility to visible after a few seconds, and
it worked ! We no longer have loading problems.
<%
// ASP browser detection
var oUserAgent = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_USER_AGENT");
var sUserAgent = oUserAgent.Count() ? oUserAgent.Item(1) :
var ie6 = (sUserAgent.indexOf("MSIE 6.0")!=-1);
%>
<script language="javascript">
<!--
// Javascript browser detection
var IE6 = (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('MSIE 6.0') !=-1);
//-->
</script>
<div id="flashmap" <% if (ie6){
%>style="visibility:hidden;"<% } %>><!-- Insert your
SWF Object here--></div>
<script language="javascript">
<!--
function MM_showHideLayers() { //v6.0
clearInterval(iIntervalID);
var i,p,v,obj,args=MM_showHideLayers.arguments;
for (i=0; i<(args.length-2); i+=3) if
((obj=MM_findObj(args
))!=null) { v=args[i+2];
if (obj.style) { obj=obj.style;
v=(v=='show')?'visible':(v=='hide')?'hidden':v; }
obj.visibility=v; }
// In 3 seconds, display the flashmap layer
if (IE6) {
var iIntervalID =
setInterval("MM_showHideLayers('flashmap','','show')", 3000);
//-->
</script>
NB: this problem did not occur in IE7, Firefox (Mac/PC),
Safari nor Opera
Best regards,
Karl Sigiscar.

Answer 1

I will take a look at the classnames.
any ideas why it is making your FF (local) hang? I have not
had any issues
with this on my IE6 or FF (local and non local)?
thanks
"Loco-Motive" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
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> Hi B,
>
> This was a tough one :)
> But i like a challenge ;)
> After some local testing i found out that is has to do
with the Classnames
> having "-" in them and thats an illegal character for
classnames.
> IE 7 deals with it i reccon but IE 6 doesn't.
>
> so replace the "-"'s in the classnames with "_" and it
will work like u
> want
> it to.
>
> and btw your website makes my FF hang even locally :S
> Greetz,
> Superficial.
>