DHTML Menu Builder is optimized
to take advantage of the great features in Microsoft's Internet
Explorer 5.5 and above.
Because of Netscape Navigator 4's lack of support for standardized features, some features in DHTML Menu Builder can't be reproduced on other browsers.Known Style Issues
Below you will find a list of style settings supported by DHTML
Menu Builder that will not work on some browsers:
- Drop shadow and transparency effects (Special
Effects Dialog)
These effects use some proprietary features of Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.0, so no other browser will be able to
render them.
- Raised and sunken borders effects on the commands
selections (Special Effects
Dialog)
These features are not available under Netscape
Navigator 4
The resulting menus will not show the effect
- Colored borders (Special
Effects Dialog)
These features are not available under Netscape
Navigator 4
The resulting menus will not show the effect
- Cursors (Cursor
Dialog)
The support for different cursors is not available under
Navigator 4
- Border Colors (Group
Color and Group Image
Dialog)
Netscape
Navigator 4 does not support different color borders in the same group.
The resulting menus will show a single colored border taken from the setting for the left corner.
- Context Menus (Special
Effects Dialog)
With the exception of Internet Explorer 4 and Opera, this feature is only supported on browsers running under
Windows .
- Fonts (Fonts
Dialog)
Under Netscape Navigator 4, fonts may appear slightly smaller,
especially when using the Macintosh or Linux versions.
Netscape Navigator 4 specific issues
Netscape Navigator 4 is a very old browser with a huge list of
problems. Here you will find some of the most common issues that
directly affect the menus created by DHTML Menu Builder.
- Resizing the browser window crashes Navigator or
makes the menus inoperable
This is probably the most annoying bug in Navigator 4.
The reason this happens is outside the scope of this
document, but if you would like more information, including
possible solutions, try these links:
- Font sizes under Netscape Navigator appear smaller
Because of a bug in Netscape Navigator 4 that forces us not to use
in-line style sheet declarations, DHTML Menu Builder converts
font sizes from pixels to points.
Under some font types and sizes, this may cause the fonts
under Navigator to appear slightly smaller than in other
browsers.
The cause of this problem is outside the scope of this
document, but if you would like more information try these
links:
- Browser crashes when loading a page with the menus
Under some circumstances, very old versions of Netscape Navigator 4
(specifically 4.05 and 4.08) will crash when loading the
menus.
This is usually caused by the combination of the menus'
scripts plus some other non-Navigator compatible code in
your page, including scripts generated by other programs.
You should try previewing the menus directly in Navigator. Alternatively, you might try creating a page that contains ONLY the
menus and the toolbar. If the browser does not crash with
the menus alone, then your pages contain some code that, when
used in conjunction with the DHTML Menu Builder menus, crashes the browser.
Opera 5 and 6 specific issues
This excellent browser has made its way from a purely simple
browser to an almost perfect browser in terms of compatibility
with the W3C standards.
- Commands do get selected when hovering over them
Opera 5 still has no support for several DOM properties that
are required for menus highlighting. As a result only the
images change when you move your mouse over menu items.
- Resizing the browser window crashes Opera or
makes the menus inoperable
Just as Navigator 4, Opera 5 may crash or improperly
render the menus after resizing the browser window.
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