Support Note S1006 - Selteco Software

Note ID:	S1006
Product:	Selteco Menu Maker
Version:	1.0, 2.0, 3.0

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Menu Maker and Netscape

Symptoms
Top menu bar is visible under Netscape browser, but drop down submenus do not work.
Solution
Make sure you have Menu Maker version 3.0 or above. To check the version choose "About" command from "Help" menu. If you version is lower upgrade to most recent version.
To switch compatibility to Netscape use commands located in "Menu" menu. There are 2 modes "Relative" and "Fixed". Relative menus appear on the screen according to current html flow, wherever included using "script" tag. Fixed menu is independent of the html flow, and needs x and y position, menu width and height specified by the user.

Symptoms
The menu is not availabe under Netscape 4.x ONLY.
Solution
Fixed menu tag should be placed immediately after the BODY tag. Placing the tag inside a table may cause the menu unavailable under Netscape 4.x. It is not necessary to place the tag inside a table, because fixed menu is positioned using absolute x and y coordinates.
Wrong:
<TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 BORDER=0><TR><TD> <SCRIPT SRC=mymenu.js></SCRIPT> </TD></TR></TABLE>
Suggested solution:
<BODY> <SCRIPT SRC=mymenu.js></SCRIPT> <TABLE CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 BORDER=0><TR><TD> ... </TD></TR></TABLE>

Using "Free HTML"
If the item is created using "Free HTML" code and the item has a submenu, the submenu will not drop-down under Netscape 4.x.

Naming .JS file
If you name your .JS file with spaces, for example "My Menu.js" the menu will not be loaded by Netscape 4.x browser. Don't use spaces in the name of .JS file. In above example "MyMenu.js" name should be used. You can also use "%20" sign to replace spaces, in this example you can use the name "My%20Menu.js":
Wrong:
<SCRIPT SRC="My Menu.js"></SCRIPT>
Suggested solution:
<SCRIPT SRC="MyMenu.js"></SCRIPT>
Or:
<SCRIPT SRC="My%20Menu.js"></SCRIPT>

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