I used Macromedia Fireworks to create the code for the image behaviors. (i.e. mouseover the thumbnail, the images changes like a regular button and once the thumbnail is clicked another image should show up in the large main black square to the right) They work fine locally in both Fireworks and in Dreamweaver. Once it's loaded to the live server only the mouseovers work and the onclick behavior stops working properly using IE 6 - works fine in Mozilla. Any ideas on what's broken or have an alternative coding suggestion?

I've included the link to the web page below:

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Works fine for me.

Here's an example on another site of what my page should do. It does not work in IE6 --try Mozilla. The Concept Wheel - Product Branding

Works for me too. Just takes the images a long time to load. It most likely worked like you thought on you local computer since you didn't have to wait for the images to load.

Try optimizing your images to reduce their file size and also try adding an image preloader script.

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If I right click on the main area that's supposed to have the picture and select show picture in IE6 --the picture appears. But, it works without forcing the picture in Mozilla.



I already have the preload script in. I'll try reducing the file size on the main pictures (not thumbnails) from 50 to 4k and see if it does anything. The thumbnails are byte size already. It's always 'fun' working with image heavy sites.

I think you might be working on the site as I'm writing this, but when I looked last night it was working. I didnt have to right click to get the image. Worked exactly the same for me in both FF and IE

I thought it might be my browser so I dumped my browser cache and reset it to the default settings -- still the same thing. I tried removing the doc type and separating out the table with the image swaps and rollovers from the rest of the site template. Same thing -- works fine in Mozilla and not in IE6 for me.

I polled a few friends and found that all versions on a mac seem to work, as well as mozilla and netscape. Plus, some could view and some could not using IE6.

Going on a hunch that it might be a browser setting, I played with....

Internet Options | Temporary Internet Files | Settings | Uncheck Every Time You Visit a Page and CheckEvery Time you Start IE or any of the others and the web page seems to work fine.

Could it be this simple? And if so, is there something I can code on the web page to ensure consistency? The everyday user will not know to change this browser setting to make it work and they shouldn't have to.

There really isn't anyway you can override the users setting. You're right the user shouldn't have to change that setting, but something tells me most won't need to at all. I don't think the 'every time you visit a page' is the default so it really shouldn't be a problem.

How many people was it that had problems viewing it in IE besides yourself? And do you know if they gave everything enough time to load?

Something tells me this isn't going to be as much of an issue as it might be.

Have you moved the page at all. Anytime I've gone to look today when I click on any of the links I'm taken to a file not found page. If it's up maybe people viewing this thread could try and let you know if it's working for them.

That's weird, I haven't modified any of the files as of yet today.

From the handful of users that it didn't work for, I asked them to check their browser settings and they had the "every time you visit a page" checked in their IE6 browser.

I would certainly feel more comfortable knowing that the setting I had in my browser is not the norm. I'd also be curious to know if it works in version 7.

I see what you mean now. I tried it in IE and works fine until I set to 'every time you visit a page' and then I just get a blank image.

I'm not sure why that's happening, but if I can come up with anything I'll let you know.