Marquee & Netscape page overflow

[Guest]

I used FrontPage 2003 to add a vertical marquee to a page
that aleady had other text on it. The marquee is
positioned before the remaining text. The page works fine
in IE, but marquee doesn't work in Netscape. Frontpage
2003 shows a page break line occuring near location where
marquee transitions to remainder of text so it could mean
a page overflow problem. In Netscape, the marquee text is
either frozen or the remainder of marquee text gets
truncated by no movement. The non-marque text appears
fine. Is there some HTML code that can make vertical
marquee work in both browsers? Is there something else I
can do to the html to allow marquee function in IE while
Netscape can show all the text with the marquee function
disabled?

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

The FP marquee is an IE only feature. Not supported by NS.
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Tom "Pepper" Willett
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| I used FrontPage 2003 to add a vertical marquee to a page
| that aleady had other text on it. The marquee is
| positioned before the remaining text. The page works fine
| in IE, but marquee doesn't work in Netscape. Frontpage
| 2003 shows a page break line occuring near location where
| marquee transitions to remainder of text so it could mean
| a page overflow problem. In Netscape, the marquee text is
| either frozen or the remainder of marquee text gets
| truncated by no movement. The non-marque text appears
| fine. Is there some HTML code that can make vertical
| marquee work in both browsers? Is there something else I
| can do to the html to allow marquee function in IE while
| Netscape can show all the text with the marquee function
| disabled?

 

[Guest]

"The FP marquee is an IE only feature. Not supported by
NS."

OK, I concede.
However, can I edit the html code to check for which
browser is being used before executing marquee code?

For example, a conditional equivalent of "if(IE) or else"
type statement inserted in the html code could allow the
marquee to function in IE, but ignore the marquee code
for Netscape for the else condition.

 

[Jon Spivey]

Hi,
Tom wasnt correct in saying the Marquee is IE only. It's also supported in
Firefox - not sure about NN7, dont test against that browser any more.
Obviously it isn't supported in NN4. Marquee is also in the draft for CSS3
and supported by Safari on mac.

Which version of Netscape are you testing against? If you like marquee you
should be safe to use it and get better than 90% browser support.

Jon
Microsoft MVP - FP

 

[Guest]

I use Netscape 7.1 version. IE 6.0 works just fine for
the page. I use a PC with Windows XP Home Edition. I'm
real frugal so I don't use CSS features and I don't use
the special FrontPage 2003 Services. I can email a copy
of the html code for the page and indicate where I use it
on my website if you like a challenge, but again you
imply limited experience/incentive to test Netscape 7.1.

 

[Guest]

I decided to replace the marquee with vertical scrolling
javascript and it seems to work better and has some
additional functionality. If you get a chance,take a look
at my website in various browsers to see how well it
works @

http://www.analysis-guru.com/Philosophy.htm

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

I stand corrected by Jon.

However, I, like so many others, don't look at "Firefox" as a mainstream
browser, so I spoke generically.

For browser stats, you could look at: http://www.echoecho.com/

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Tom "Pepper" Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage
---
About FrontPage 2003:
http://office.microsoft.com/home/office.aspx?assetid=FX01085802
FrontPage 2003 Product Information:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/frontpage/prodinfo/default.mspx
Understanding FrontPage:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/office/understanding/frontpage/
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| I decided to replace the marquee with vertical scrolling
| javascript and it seems to work better and has some
| additional functionality. If you get a chance,take a look
| at my website in various browsers to see how well it
| works @
|
| http://www.analysis-guru.com/Philosophy.htm
|
| >-----Original Message-----
| >Hi,
| >Tom wasnt correct in saying the Marquee is IE only. It's
| also supported in
| >Firefox - not sure about NN7, dont test against that
| browser any more.
| >Obviously it isn't supported in NN4. Marquee is also in
| the draft for CSS3
| >and supported by Safari on mac.
| >
| >Which version of Netscape are you testing against? If
| you like marquee you
| >should be safe to use it and get better than 90% browser
| support.
| >
| >Jon
| >Microsoft MVP - FP
| >
| >| >> "The FP marquee is an IE only feature. Not supported
| by
| >> NS."
| >>
| >> OK, I concede.
| >> However, can I edit the html code to check for which
| >> browser is being used before executing marquee code?
| >>
| >> For example, a conditional equivalent of "if(IE) or
| else"
| >> type statement inserted in the html code could allow
| the
| >> marquee to function in IE, but ignore the marquee code
| >> for Netscape for the else condition.
| >>
| >
| >
| >.
| >

 

[MD Websunlimited]

Jon,

Are you saying you support "FireFox" but not NN7.xx? I would think just the opposite would be true as NN6/7 are in more general use
than FireFox, at least in the States it is ;>)