cssmenu + ie5.x and ns7.01

[marit]

Again a question re CSSMenu....

Am using the horizontal version which works okay in FF 1.5, IE6 (SP1), Opera 8, but NOT in IE5.x and NS7.01. In the latter no menu appears at all and in IE5x the submenu's don't collaps/drop down.
Please see a testpage at: http://tttjournal.ampheon.info/index.php?page=testje

As the site is hosted on a Windows 2003 server with IIS6 the Gzip and Zlib approach is not applicable.

Any help will be much appreciated! Thanks in advance.

[marit]

Is there anybody who could help me with this problem please?
Or is the info insufficient?

[jelle]

Hoi Marit,

Probably not much value to you, but it works ok with konqueror 3.4.3, although your site thinks I am a googlebot.

btw: how did you get that gradient into the top menu? (on the original site, dont see it on your testje) I like that one, but all I can find about it in the css is an url to images/arrow.gif, but that one 404's on me.

[marit]

Hoi Jelle,

Thanks for the Konqueror info.

btw: how did you get that gradient into the top menu? (on the original site, dont see it on your testje) I like that one, but all I can find about it in the css is an url to images/arrow.gif, but that one 404's on me.

The site is still very much in a production phase, but the gradient is the #topnav background-image viz. ../images/topnav_bg.jpg.

[Mary]

I've experienced this problem with netscape 7.01 as well.  In fact, the out-of-the-box drop down CSS Menu that is distributed with cmsmadesimple has this problem.  Any ideas on how to fix?

[jelle]

As far as I know it is valid css, so the question becomes like 'are you going to support every non-compliant browser under the sun?'
IMHO that is not a smart way to go down. netscape in particular is essentially a dead browser. Not the bugs/features of a particular browser should be the touchstone, but the actual standards these browsers (try to) implement. That is theory, and in practice there will be enought momentum to work around errors in IE or FF.  For NS7, I fear that the userbase is now to small to warrant accomadating it's bugs/quircks.

But just maybe the javascript that helps IE along with cssmenu might work for NS7 too? See if setting the useragent to the IE string alleviates helps, and if it does, change the ifIE tag aacordingly.