At 05:26 PM 7/04/2007, Bruno Fassino wrote: >Vicki Stebbins wrote: > >[...] > > All seemed to work fine until IE6.0. > > > > On mouseover the main image disappears and the hover image > > takes yonks to appear if at all. I'm on a modem and figured > > it could be a preload/cache thing. >[...] > > The page is at http://www.seco.com.au/index.php (validates) > > CSS at http://www.seco.com.au/styles/navigation.css (opacity doesn't > > validate, but will work that out later if needed) > > > >IE6 has the tendence to reload/recheck with the server the background >images on anchors, even if they have already been loaded/preloaded. The >problem is especially visible if IE6 cache settings are: "check for newer >versions of stored pages | every visit to the page", that fortunately is not >the default. >There are some techniques to avoid, or at least reduce the problem. The most >effective ones require changing some settings on the web server. Here are >some relevant links [1], [2], [3] (there are sure many others...) > >Hth, >Bruno > > >[1] http://www.mister-pixel.com/ >[2] http://brunildo.org/test/IEAbackima.html >[3] http://www.fivesevensix.com/studies/ie6flicker
HI Bruno, Thanks, I had IE set to check for newer versions... gee whiz sometimes with all the settings of the different browsers you can just come unstuck. Regards Vicki ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
