David Fontaine wrote in message <3891F5D0.9ABF951F@faricy.net>...
>BTW someone said it would be better to link to the actual pics rather than
>the galleries; I didn't do this because AFAIK, isn't it bad netiquette? If
>you have an idea as to how to set up the links to go to the pic AND the
>gallery, tell me :-)
David,
I don't know about anyone but I suggested that you link to the actual
pics.
It would definitely be bad netiquette to do so, I did not suggest
this.
I do, however, believe that the purpose of your "piece" is
defeated outside of this community.
If this is your goal. no problem.
If you did wish to expand your vision I was only pointing out
a possible problem.
Whatever,
Peter

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> Aha! I found the problem!
>
> You've fixed it by now, but I'll post this for others to know.
>
> The HTML specs say that you need to have an ALT attribute on all AREA tags in the
> imagemap. Any validator will show this as a problem. If you follow the practice
> of cleaning up all validation errors, you'll be saved. Netscape looks for the
> ALT text and displays that in the status bar when you move around.
>
> So for anyone out there doing an image map, remember to always include those ALT
> attributes.

What's a validator? I originally had all the ALT attribute on all of them but it did
*not* show up *anywhere* in Netscape. I have changed the ALT attrib.s to onMouseOver,
that is why it works now.

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> Which version of NS are you checking with? Things work fine for me.
>
> NS doesn't do a pop-up, but it does show the ALT text in the status bar.

4.7, and I was sure it wasn't. Oh well. It works now anyways.

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David Fontaine wrote:

>
> What's a validator? I originally had all the ALT attribute on all of them but it did
> *not* show up *anywhere* in Netscape. I have changed the ALT attrib.s to
onMouseOver,
> that is why it works now.

Well, it's strange, because it works for me. That's why I was asking which version of
Netscape you are using. Sometimes that's important to know.

But, more importantly, a validator is a program that checks your HTML against the
specifications to see if it is technically valid HTML. And there are also linters (or
style checkers) that check for 'fluff' or bad practices.

http://validator.w3.org/
http://www.htmlhelp.org/links/validators.htm




BTW, I think you overdid it with all the ";return true;"
onMouseOut="self.status='';re"...


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David Fontaine wrote:

> > Which version of NS are you checking with? Things work fine for me.
> >
> > NS doesn't do a pop-up, but it does show the ALT text in the status bar.
>
> 4.7, and I was sure it wasn't. Oh well. It works now anyways.
>

That's quite strange. Which 4.7?

It's possible that a problem somewhere else caused a side effect. Maybe you
can check that snippet I posted. It works here, so maybe that can help figure
things out.




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Peter Popov wrote:
> 
> http://www.foo.com/bar/picture.jpg   A great pic by John Smith
> 

Hey, this link didn't work!

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Remco de Korte <rem### [at] xs4allnl> wrote:
: Besides it doesn't need the Javascript tags, so who would know? ;)

  AFAIK some javascript commands can be embedded inside other tags without
need for the javascript tag. I think that OnMouseOver is one of those.

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"Jon A. Cruz" wrote:

> David Fontaine wrote:
>
> > > Which version of NS are you checking with? Things work fine for me.
> > >
> > > NS doesn't do a pop-up, but it does show the ALT text in the status bar.
> >
> > 4.7, and I was sure it wasn't. Oh well. It works now anyways.
> >
>
> That's quite strange. Which 4.7?
>
> It's possible that a problem somewhere else caused a side effect. Maybe you
> can check that snippet I posted. It works here, so maybe that can help figure
> things out.

Just plain 4.7. It shows the URL instead of the ALT. Always.

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David Fontaine wrote:

> "Jon A. Cruz" wrote:
>
> > David Fontaine wrote:
> >
> > > > Which version of NS are you checking with? Things work fine for me.
> > > >
> > > > NS doesn't do a pop-up, but it does show the ALT text in the status bar.
> > >
> > > 4.7, and I was sure it wasn't. Oh well. It works now anyways.
> > >
> >
> > That's quite strange. Which 4.7?
> >
> > It's possible that a problem somewhere else caused a side effect. Maybe you
> > can check that snippet I posted. It works here, so maybe that can help figure
> > things out.
>
> Just plain 4.7. It shows the URL instead of the ALT. Always.
>

On which platform? And did you try my sample?

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"Jon A. Cruz" wrote:

> David Fontaine wrote:
>
> > "Jon A. Cruz" wrote:
> >
> > > David Fontaine wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Which version of NS are you checking with? Things work fine for me.
> > > > >
> > > > > NS doesn't do a pop-up, but it does show the ALT text in the status bar.
> > > >
> > > > 4.7, and I was sure it wasn't. Oh well. It works now anyways.
> > > >
> > >
> > > That's quite strange. Which 4.7?
> > >
> > > It's possible that a problem somewhere else caused a side effect. Maybe you
> > > can check that snippet I posted. It works here, so maybe that can help figure
> > > things out.
> >
> > Just plain 4.7. It shows the URL instead of the ALT. Always.
> >
>
> On which platform? And did you try my sample?

Windows 98, yes.

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