floating menu bug

Tony Whittaker <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:56:36 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.milonic
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Dear Andy

I'm just getting my head around upgrading my menu to version 5!

I will almost certainly be wanting to use the floating menu again.

On my Internet Explorer v 5.00.2614.3500 running on Win 98
I get very slow page loading on  your sample with a floating menu:

http://www.milonic.com/menusample10.php

Once the page has loaded, then a reload is OK. But going to the page from 
your homepage, it may take   30 seconds or more. Then an IE message comes 
up: "A script on this pgae is causing Internet Explorer to run slowly. If 
it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to 
abort the script."

However, the problem only seems to happen if I go to that page FROM your 
homepage.

If I close the browser down, and go direct to that page, there is not a 
problem. So it may be some bad interaction between the home page and the 
sample page? Sorry to be discouraging! Though if that is all it is, it is 
probably not an issue in normal use.

I have no problem with my own floating menu on the old Milonic version on IE5.

Incidentally, the ideal menu for me would be something like a left-hand 
floating menu which remains totally fixed (like a left-hand frame) without 
the wobble and movement of a floating menu, and so is always visible and 
available. eg

http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/menus.html which works in NN but not IE.

There do appear to be workrounds to do this for IE, which does not support 
'position fixed', which are discussed at

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum83/560-3-15.htm

though I have not tried them.

If  this is a practical cross-browser solution, and you incorporated this 
stuff into the Milonic menu and created a totally unmovable left (or right) 
menu, you would be on to a winner and way ahead of the competition. On any 
page which goes to any extent below the fold, an always visible menu is, in 
my view, a big bonus.

Thanks as ever.


Best wishes

Tony


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<font size=3>Dear Andy<br><br>
I'm just getting my head around upgrading my menu to version 5!<br><br>
I will almost certainly be wanting to use the floating menu
again.<br><br>
On my Internet Explorer v 5.00.2614.3500 running on Win 98<br>
I get very slow page loading on&nbsp; your sample with a floating
menu:<br><br>
<a href="http://www.milonic.com/menusample10.php" eudora="autourl">http://www.milonic.com/menusample10.php</a><br><br>
Once the page has loaded, then a reload is OK. But going to the page from
your homepage, it may take&nbsp;&nbsp; 30 seconds or more. Then an IE
message comes up: &quot;A script on this pgae is causing Internet
Explorer to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer may become
unresponsive. Do you want to abort the script.&quot;<br><br>
However, the problem only seems to happen if I go to that page FROM your
homepage.<br><br>
If I close the browser down, and go direct to that page, there is not a
problem. So it may be some bad interaction between the home page and the
sample page? Sorry to be discouraging! Though if that is all it is, it is
probably not an issue in normal use.<br><br>
I have no problem with my own floating menu on the old Milonic version on
IE5.<br><br>
Incidentally, the ideal menu for me would be something like a left-hand
floating menu which remains totally fixed (like a left-hand frame)
without the wobble and movement of a floating menu, and so is always
visible and available. eg<br><br>
<a href="http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/menus.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/menus.html</a>
which works in NN but not IE.<br><br>
There do appear to be workrounds to do this for IE, which does not support 'position fixed', which are discussed at<br><br>
<a href="http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum83/560-3-15.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum83/560-3-15.htm</a><br><br>
though I have not tried them.<br><br>
If&nbsp; this is a practical cross-browser solution, and you incorporated this stuff into the Milonic menu and created a totally unmovable left (or right) menu, you would be on to a winner and way ahead of the competition. On any page which goes to any extent below the fold, an always visible menu is, in my view, a big bonus.<br><br>
Thanks as ever.<br><br>
<br>
Best wishes<br><br>
Tony<br><br>
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