Netscape and Mozilla not recognizing tags

[maximom229]

Hi, i am doing an image map and mapped out the coordinates using fancy tooltips
and links and it works great in MSIE but the tooltips don't show in Netscape
8.0 or Mozilla 1.0.6. Dreamweaver is telling me "the title attribute of the
AREA tag is not supported in Netscape 4 & 6". Does anyone know what the
substitution is so it will work on all of the browsers?? Thanks in advance!

Holly

[Murray *ACE*]

You are getting the correct information - it's not supported in those
browsers, which together probably account for 0.5% of your site visitors or
less. You can ignore it, if you are not interested in supporting those
browsers.

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"maximom229" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, i am doing an image map and mapped out the coordinates using fancy
> tooltips
> and links and it works great in MSIE but the tooltips don't show in
> Netscape
> 8.0 or Mozilla 1.0.6. Dreamweaver is telling me "the title attribute of
> the
> AREA tag is not supported in Netscape 4 & 6". Does anyone know what the
> substitution is so it will work on all of the browsers?? Thanks in
> advance!
>
> Holly
>

[maximom229]

Hi, two things. yes, i do want to fix the code to support all the browers that
I can, so i still need the fix.

Actually, between AOL, netscape, mozilla, opera and the many others, MSIE
share is only 85% in the US and the others are more common in Europe. I don't
want to lose 15% of the population so if you can point me to the conversion,
i'd appreciate it. :)

Thanks again.
Holly

[Murray *ACE*]

All you are really worried about here is NN4x and NN6. As I said, I doubt
that there is more than .5% of your visitors using these browsers.
Certainly nothing like 15%.

Sometimes you have to make the tough decisions. There is no way to MAKE
these browsers support the title attribute on <area> tags, and any
workaround would be far more work that this tiny segment would justify.

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"maximom229" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, two things. yes, i do want to fix the code to support all the browers
> that
> I can, so i still need the fix.
>
> Actually, between AOL, netscape, mozilla, opera and the many others, MSIE
> share is only 85% in the US and the others are more common in Europe. I
> don't
> want to lose 15% of the population so if you can point me to the
> conversion,
> i'd appreciate it. :)
>
> Thanks again.
> Holly
>

[maximom229]

Hi, no, it doesn't work in either Mozilla or Netscape - the new versions either
- not just 4 and 6 of NN. that's alot of people. Is there a work around? a
second script that detects browsers and loads a different script perhaps?

[Murray *ACE*]

The workaround would be not to rely on the title attribute, but to use an
entirely different method, something like what you find when you Google for
"overlib", although that's adding quite a bit of code overhead to the page.

Alternatively, you could not use hotspots for this, and replace them with
individual images - in this case the title attribute would work fine.

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"maximom229" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, no, it doesn't work in either Mozilla or Netscape - the new versions
> either
> - not just 4 and 6 of NN. that's alot of people. Is there a work around?
> a
> second script that detects browsers and loads a different script perhaps?
>

[maximom229]

Hi, i found the overlib script but it too uses the area tag so it's no
different. I emailed the overlib list right after your response but they never
answered. the option of swapping images won't work here so i need another
attribute that is supported by at least MSIE, Mozilla and NN. will <object>
work here???

[Murray *ACE*]

> Hi, i found the overlib script but it too uses the area tag

Then you are not understanding what it does. Of course it uses the area
tag - that's where you are applying it. But instead of relying on the title
attribute of the <area> tag, which is not working for you, overlib triggers
a javascript behavior, which WILL work for you.

> I emailed the overlib list right after your response but they never
> answered.

Don't expect one....

Try overlib. It should work fine.

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"maximom229" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, i found the overlib script but it too uses the area tag so it's no
> different. I emailed the overlib list right after your response but they
> never
> answered. the option of swapping images won't work here so i need another
> attribute that is supported by at least MSIE, Mozilla and NN. will
> <object>
> work here???
>

[ValPolyakh]

[q]Originally posted by: maximom229
Hi, i am doing an image map and mapped out the coordinates using fancy
tooltips and links and it works great in MSIE but the tooltips don't show in
Netscape 8.0 or Mozilla 1.0.6. Dreamweaver is telling me "the title attribute
of the AREA tag is not supported in Netscape 4 & 6". Does anyone know what the
substitution is so it will work on all of the browsers?? Thanks in advance!

Holly[/q]
Maybe you should use alt attribute instead of title?

[Murray *ACE*]

Will not work....

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"ValPolyakh" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> [q]Originally posted by: maximom229
> Hi, i am doing an image map and mapped out the coordinates using fancy
> tooltips and links and it works great in MSIE but the tooltips don't show
> in
> Netscape 8.0 or Mozilla 1.0.6. Dreamweaver is telling me "the title
> attribute
> of the AREA tag is not supported in Netscape 4 & 6". Does anyone know
> what the
> substitution is so it will work on all of the browsers?? Thanks in
> advance!
>
> Holly[/q]
> Maybe you should use alt attribute instead of title?
>
>

[maximom229]

thanks. i did get some help from the Overlib list and it worked great.

[Murray *ACE*]

Yep. I thought it would be the best option.

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"maximom229" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> thanks. i did get some help from the Overlib list and it worked great.