Posted by Neredbojias on 04/29/06 07:21

To further the education of mankind, freemont <yabba@dabba.doo>
vouchsafed:

> So I got some code going for the drop-down menus, that was css-based,
> and therefore avoided javascript. It worked fine. (I run Linux here,
> and code everything by hand.) I use Opera as my main browser, so I was
> looking at the page as I coded it using Opera, Firefox, and also the
> built-in preview of the editor. I looked at the page also with
> Netscape, Evolution, Konqueror, and Lynx(!). Everything was cool.
>
> So I booted into Windows tonight to play a game, and I looked at the
> page with Internet Explorer... and the drop-downs don't work. (Can you
> confirm this? When you hover over the first two menu items, a
> drop-down should appear.)

> Is there any possible "IE hack" that will make my menus work?
>
> Here's the template:
> <http://freemontsoffice.com/gilbert/index.htm>

IE6 only does hover on links, so if you can "hack" your menu up as links
and style them...

Alternately, you could use something like php to serve an IE version of the
page to IE6 and below (-or possibly conditional comments, but I wouldn't
attack that can of worms, myself. [-In this case.])

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Neredbojias
Infinity has its limits.

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