Netscape 6.2 and rollover images

[tedster]

I've just noticed that Netscape 6.2 has some strange behavior with rollover images. (Since I "just" noticed, you can see how little I worry about Netscape these days!)

What I'm seeing looks like the images don't get read from the cache. Every mouseover and mouseout brings a new (and slow) rendering of the image. I see this on every rollover I can find! Sometimes the new image doesn't ever load, and the browser turns it into a text link !!??

Anyone know wassup wid dat?

[markd]

Don't know what it is Ted, but I've found this also - so it's not just you!!!

Wish everyone would not worry about using Netscape LOL!

[tedster]

Yeah. What a shame about Netscape 6. Even 6.2 is drastically flawed. They really blew a lot of strong branding on that one! And after all that development time.

[Nicu_Alecu]

Guys, I'm sorry but i DO have to disagree. In order to make my case clear, I'll give an example [corbet.ro].
Please note that the site is not ready yet, not by a long shot, I just uploaded some content and some rollovers for you to see it working in Netscape 6.2. Maybe you can show me some URLs that are not working, so we can see the difference and understand what's going on.

[tedster]

Interesting. Your example is switching images in a different spot from the where mouseover occurs. The troubles I see come when the rollover happens in place - mouseover an image link and have that image change to a different image until mouseout.

[Nicu_Alecu]

I see. I'll try to make the proper adjustment and see how it works ... but this will be tomorrow morning, 'cause I'm really sleepy now. C u guys tommorow.

[tedster]

The mystery deepens. I can't make the glitch happen predictably. All the pages that were giving me NN6 troubles are acting fine right now on my system, with no code change.

The rollovers are still a bit sluggish, but what I see today I can live with. What I was seeing before was awful. It came to my attention through a user complaint, and I then found the same problem on sites that weren't mine.

Oh, well.

[Nicu_Alecu]

Well, it's way past "tommorow", but I did a new test, using both rollover option, based on another site I'm currently working on. [url=:http//www.alegradesign.com/host/test/index.html]This is the URL[/url]. Just as the previous link I've posted, it has no actual content, but rollovers are built both on the pictures on the top and on the text menu on the left. I use NN6.2.1 and it works just fine, and I also tested it on several other machines, including a linux box ... there were no problems.
I guess this means there must be some other problem, not necessarily related to NN6. Try it, Tedster.

[4eyes]

Does it depend on the mouse over solution?

Is it just having problems with some javascript, or is it all?