Broken Custom Hover Button

[Dennis Wahng]

Custom hover button created with FP2002 appears broken in
preview pane and browser. Workarounds of MS articles
Q323236 and Q817697 had been followed (preview only in a
browser and delete codebase="./" in html), but the
problem is still not resolved.

Warning! Previously good custom hover buttons, created
with FP2000 (not FP2002) in a published Internet web,
would turn broken after the web page has been opened LIVE
by FP2002!

Since I've heard the new FP2003 is having the same
problem, I don't think MS has a patch for the problem.

Any one can help?

 

[Jim Buyens]

Hover buttons depend on the presence of a Java Virtual
Machine in order to work. And beginning with Windows XP,
Microsoft no longer provides this.

You can solve this on your own machine by downloading a
JVM from http://java.com, but there's no way to guarantee
your visitors have done this. Therefore, you are best off
eliminating any Hover Buttons in your site, and using
image rollovers or FrontPage 2003 Interactive Buttons
instead.

Jim Buyens
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
http://www.interlacken.com
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