Posted by Benjamin Niemann on 02/10/07 15:40

Roland wrote:

> I am working on a nav menu for a sports team fan page. Everything works
> fine up to this point except for a delay for the sebmenus and their hover
> effect in IE6. In FF, Opera, and Netscape the effects apply as fast as I
> put my mouse over them making it so I can just zip up and down the list
> watching the colors change. But the delay in IE6 makes me feel like I am
> wasting my time considering how many people use it.
>
> Can someone look with IE7 and see if the long delay is in that version?
>
> There are a total of 31 links in the 2nd submenu that I think may be
> causing this. There is an "a" and "a:hover" id(with bg images) for each of
> these in the css file to get the effect. Is it possible that the amount of
> links is slowing the menu down in IE6?
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~abhosk/test/test.htm
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~abhosk/test/test.css

Can't say much about IE, but: the sub-submenus are so long that they do not
fit completely on my screen (1024x786) and I don't have a chance to reach
the lower items. Also when linebreaks are inserted into items (which
happens in my Konq), the text overlaps the icons.

The delays in IE may be caused by a known bug that causes IE to
(re-)download background images, everytime they are changed - even if they
are cached. But that's just a guess, because I'm too lazy to fire up VMWare
to verify.


HTH

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Benjamin Niemann
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WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/

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