I've followed the steps for creating an auto-fading photo slideshow, and it works great in both Safari and Firefox. However, it does NOT work in Internet Explorer.

http://web.me.com/tfwn93/elixsys/

Can you help?

Troy (Macbook Pro, 2.8GHz, 4GB RAM, Mac OS X v10.5.8, iWeb 3.0.2)

Hi Troy,

unfortunately I can't help on anything related InternetExplorer since not even Microsoft can help people with Internet Explorer. They understood they created the worst browser in the world.

Whether the slideshow works or not in Internet Explorer as far as I know depends on the version people are using, the service pack and whether they enabled Javascript or not.

Sorry and regards,
Cédric

OK -- That is unfortunate! I spent a lot of time creating this and can't believe that those who use IE won't be able to see it.

Can you explain why? I thought this was just code, and thought it would work in any browser?

Troy

I've solved it!

IE doesn't like one of the commas in your code. I removed it and everything works great in ALL web browsers!

- Troy

That's great! May I ask which comma it is?

A lot of people report that their iWeb created website but also non iWeb created websites don't display correctly in IE. It is just a code however all browsers have to read that code, understand it and render the code (display to you what the code means=>ex. slideshow).

Codes are languages (there's HTML, Javascript, CSS, PHP, ...). Browsers are people (Safari, Firefox, Chrome, IE). I could answer your question in Italian or German or French or English (code languages). You may understand or not understand the answer depending on whether you speak these languages or not. Or in my answer I could use a word like lobectomy and you may know what it means or may not know what it means. Hence you would get the answer or not. Internet Explorer doesn't understand Javascript very well, it may know the basics (What's your name? Come ti chiami? What's your job? Cosa lavori?) but it can't manage a real conversation.

Different people talk different languages. They may know some languages better than other. Same for the browsers. Some do a better job on some languages (codes) others at other.

More info here:
http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWeb_Compatibility.html

InternetExplorer 6 and 7 perhaps don't always understand the z-index which is responsible of telling which object is in front of which other object when there are multiple layers.

Regards,
Cédric

Actually the error was in MY code -- you have it correct in your iWeb FAQ E-Book! I used the following code as a reference:

imagearray: [
["http://iwebfaq.org/fadeimages/DSC00070.jpg", "http://LinkURL", "_top", "Description"],
["http://iwebfaq.org/fadeimages/DSC00071.jpg", "http://LinkURL", "_top", "Description"],
["http://iwebfaq.org/fadeimages/DSC00072.jpg", "http://LinkURL", "_top", "Description"],
["http://iwebfaq.org/fadeimages/DSC00165.jpg", "http://LinkURL", "_top", "Description"],
["http://iwebfaq.org/fadeimages/DSC00170.jpg", "http://LinkURL", "_top", "Description"],
["http://iwebfaq.org/fadeimages/DSC00173.jpg", "http://LinkURL", "_top", "Description"]
],


My mistake was when adding more image lines and forgetting to leave out the comma in the last one (you did it correctly above). All of the other web browsers were OK with it, except for IE.

Thanks again!

- Troy