Hover Button Requires Two Clicks

[Earl Partridge]

FP 2000, Windows XP
My hover button requires TWO clicks to navigate to the link.
Not a Double Click, TWO separate clicks.
Earl

 

[Mark Fitzpatrick]

Hover buttons are Java Applets embeded in a web page. Due to a patent
lawsuit by Eolas, Microsoft has changed the way that objects behave when
they are embeddeding a web page. In order to comply with the patent lawsuit,
objects such as Java Applets or Flash animations require a click in order to
activate. What you are seeing here is probably the click to activate, then
the second click to actually use them.

Unfortunately, there really isn't much that can be done with the hover
buttons to get around this. Hover buttons also aren't the best thing to use
because since they are Java Applets, they require a Java Virtual Machine to
be installed on the computer of the user viewing the web page. Most
computers nowadays don't ship with a JVM as Java hasn't penetrated the
desktop like it was believe to. That means that most people won't see them
anyways.

 

[e]

Correction: Hover buttons are Flash controls.

Reasons why not to use Hover Buttons:
1.. They are flash buttons, so crawlers can't crawl them
2.. They require Extra Files
3.. Using them, you can't create sitemaps.
4.. You can't make sitemaps with them

 

[Murray]

FP Hover buttons are Java not Flash.

 

[David Berry]

Correction, Hover Buttons are Java Applets not Flash and if the user doesn't
have a JVM installed they won't see them.

 

[e]

I say they're Flash controls, joint with Java applets, but this buttons
don't work in Google page indexing, or other search engines. You can't crawl
pages for sitemaps with these.

Try AspHost4Free. They have DB/MDB/Access Support, ASP support and FP
Extensions

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[David Berry]

The are definitely NOT Flash controls.

I say they're Flash controls, joint with Java applets, but this buttons
don't work in Google page indexing, or other search engines. You can't
crawl
pages for sitemaps with these.

Try AspHost4Free. They have DB/MDB/Access Support, ASP support and FP
Extensions

http://www.asphost4free.com/