blocked content

[drak10687]

whenever i add html code to my website that links to another page, (so far
used code for making drop down menue, and making hyperlinks open in a new
window) when i view that page in internet explorer it drops down a little
bar at the top of the page saying it has restricted this file from showing
active content that could access you computer. when i click on it, i have to
click "allow blocked content" so that it goes away and lets me click on those
hyperlinks/dropdown menue.

its not really a problem, but its kinda annoying having to do that everytime
i open the website.

im using publisher 2003, and my website is not, and will not actually be on
the web, but on a cd. also, this does not happen in mozilla, but mozilla
dosent make some of the graphics on my site show up correctly.

 

[DavidF]

This one I might be able to answer more directly. Microsoft has incorporated
a "pop up blocker" in IE. If you don't want to use it you can disable it or
change the settings under Tools.

Publisher produces HTML code that is designed for IE, and sometimes it lacks
cross browser support. Some of these issues can be fixed, some can't. Some
people have no problem with their sites in Mozilla, others do.

Be sure to go to Tools > Options > and untick "Rely on VML..." and "Allow
PNG...". If you still have problems with the images, then you can try
changing your design around until you figure out why the images are not
displaying correctly, and perhaps why your navbars don't work. I know that
the horizontal navbars produced by the navbar wizard don't work correctly in
Firefox while the vertical navbar does, as does a hand built horizontal
textual navbar.

If you take my suggestion in your other post about Publishing to the Web, to
your hard drive, you can open and test the files in Mozilla, FireFox or IE.
Move around the images one at a time and see what you are doing design wise
that creates the problem with the images loading correctly. And...if it is
just a matter of the images loading but being low quality or distorted, that
may be explained by the fact that Pub 2003 produces copies of each image in
various formats with the goal of loading the best image depending on which
browser is used. Unfortunately that doesn't work very well in all cases.
Your only workaround then is to import the images into your page instead of
embedding them...

DavidF

 

[drak10687]

ok, thanks, i was just hoping there would be a script to tell IE that these
arent popups, or something, but then i guess everyone would use it.

as far as cross-browser compatability, the only issue in firefox is the
squares i made for my backround and navigation bar that use "fill effects"
to make them semi-transparent. In explorer they are very smooth (just like
they look in publisher) but in mozilla they are... well, not smooth, and look
like the cartoons in the news papers, sort of "dotty" anyways, it dosent
really hamper the ability to view the website or read the content.

 

[DavidF]

If that is the only problem you are having with your site in mozilla, then I
wouldn't be too concerned either. Even if you use a specialized web design
program such as FrontPage, you won't get 100% cross browser support, all the
time.

DavidF