[Opera-users] 2 pages, no images/links--JavaScript the culprit?

[Axel Siebert]

Am 13.06.01 06:48:01, schrieb Warrick Bell <wjbell at mail2.gis.net>:

>I offer for your perusal and comment two pages which I'm having trouble 
>with.  There are only illustrative examples--there are many others similar 
>on these two sites.

For both sites it's not a JavaScript problem.

>The first is from eBay:
>         http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1437913994

This page is dynamically created by a (*PUKE*) Micro$oft Webserver 
(Microsoft-IIS/4.0) and thus bound to cause problems. It generates different 
code depending on which browser you use. If you set Opera to identify as 
Opera or Netscape 3.0, the picture references are simply missing from the
code!! Perhaps you should mail the webmaster telling him to configure his 
bloody software properly.

>         http://www.silive.com/homes/
>The central column on the page is supposed to be full of links, and they 
>work as links in IE.

There are several sites, all belonging to the "Local Services" of
"Advance Internet" <http://www.advance.net/>, all with identical crappy 
coding, all causing the same problem.
The navigation bar on the left is coded

<DIV ID="NAVSPAN" STYLE="position: absolute; top: 185; left: 10">

The style doesn't contain the necessary "width" attribute, thus the DIV 
defaults to the whole window width, overlapping and overriding the links.
Once again the webmaster should be notified, it's really not that hard to 
define a reasonable width. (Of course it's bad coding anyway to use an 
absolutely positioned DIV for that purpose...)

Axel