Posted by rfr on 08/19/06 04:00

I tend to agree with you that hacks are more of a pain than a solution.

But, I would like to do CSS mouse-over hovers on containers in MSIE as I
can in the other browsers. And that is what this Behavior supposedly added
to MSIE.

I suspect that this really works but there is something simple that I am
failing to do right.

"Neredbojias" <http://www.neredbojias.com/fliam.php?cat=alt.html> wrote in
message news:Xns98238EA5C800Chttpwwwneredbojiasco@208.49.80.251...
> To further the education of mankind, "rfr" <rfrohrer@iw.net> vouchsafed:
>
>> Project 6 in More Eric Meyer on CSS has the use of an Internet MSIE
>> specific Behavior to provide the the ability to get mouse actions on
>> containers to work in MSIE, which other browsers will do, but MSIE
>> wont unless one supliments if with JavaScript of use of this Behavior
>> file.
>>
>> This seemd like a clean and neat way to do this. It seemed better than
>> a js method.
>>
>> But . . . . .
>>
>> Athough I understand the project text and have the "csshover.htc"
>> setup in the same directory as specified in the CSS of the original
>> project file, it does not seem to work on my Dell 8400 running Win XP
>> Media Center in MSIE 6.0
>>
>> Netscape, Opera, and Firefox are able to run project 6 files on this
>> system. So, I know there is nothing universally wrong with this. The
>> problem is isolated to MSIE.
>>
>> Is there some trick to using this behavior?
>> 1. For example does it ONLY work when evoked from an Internet server?
>> I have run into that before on other issues.
>> 2. Is it possible that Win XP Media Center is inhibiting something
>> when MSIE 6.0 is used that others are running into?
>>
>> Can someone shed some light on this.
>
> The trouble with using hacks is that sooner or later they will inevitably
> fail. W3c standards allow user-agents certain options which, though very
> ill-conceived, may "legitimately" cause a problem.
>
> The best thing to do is to stick with the more straightforward methods of
> css and hope for the distant day when they just might fix the other crap.
>
> --
> Neredbojias
> Infinity has its limits.

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