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carlo99 · Aug 29, 2006, 05:42 PM

Mac users seem to be having problems with links from this page http://www.eastridingopenstudios.co....s/artists.html
But PC's seem OK can any one help. The site is built with Net Objects Fusion

Thank you
Carlo

RickJ · Aug 30, 2006, 03:11 AM

What problem are the Mac users having? Frankly, it may be something I noticed. Your hotspots for the links are all over the place.

I'm on a PC using Firefox.
Some examples:
Adrian Boland: the hotspot is above her name.
Jill Ford: hotspot is only in upper 1/4th of the name.
J. Warrington: same thing.
Jan Jones: same as Adrian Boland.

I'd suggest using regular text links... but if you're dead set on that font, then make your image map hotspots more accurate.

carlo99 · Aug 30, 2006, 03:44 AM

Hi
Thanks for taking the time to look, the links of the artists page are all text links already, I've just up loaded a new page, would the fact that I've used an un common font be making any difference?

Carlo

RickJ · Aug 30, 2006, 04:24 AM

OK, I just copied your code to my app (dreamweaver) and I do see that they're text links... but I'm not familiar with layers, which I see are being used.

First you need to confirm exactly what the Mac users say the problem is. Besides that's though, I see something odd I've not seen before: Even though you've got "text links", the areas that are clickable are not the text itself. They're layers whose areas do not completely cover the text.

I tried to stretch them to cover the entire text but that pushes some of the other text off the columns... no doubt because I don't do layers on my sites.

See if you can adjust those layers so that the clickable area covers the entire name. I have a feeling that's what people are complaining about.

LTheobald · Aug 30, 2006, 04:52 AM

The problem is all the <layer> tags. These tags are browser specific I believe (Netscape?). So they won't work properly in a lot of broswers. If you want it to display correctly in all browsers. You need to use more standards complient code like <div> or even better - <ol> & <li> (ordered list & list item). I'll try and get a code sample up later for you.

carlo99 · Aug 30, 2006, 05:18 AM

Thank you both that shines some light on the matter for me, I think I can publish that page in a different format, I'll have a go, but why do some links seem lined up correctly?

Regards
Carlo

boldeanu_00 · Dec 21, 2009, 11:56 AM

Originally Posted by RickJ

What problem are the Mac users having? Frankly, it may be something I noticed. Your hotspots for the links are all over the place.

I'm on a PC using Firefox.
Some examples:
Adrian Boland: the hotspot is above her name.
Jill Ford: hotspot is only in upper 1/4th of the name.
J. Warrington: same thing.
Jan Jones: same as Adrian Boland.

I'd suggest using regular text links...but if you're dead set on that font, then make your image map hotspots more accurate.

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