[Curtis Thompson]

hey marco…

the easiest way i’ve always done this is to just use a flag for the menu status – so if you have 4 menus with dropdowns, make an array of 4 elements and set them all to false – then with each menu mouseover, you’d have logic like this (let’s call the array of statuses “array_stat” and assume we’re talking about the first menu item):

1. on mouseover main menu button: array_stat[0] = true
2. on mouseout main menu button: sleep for 200 then array_stat[0] = false
3. onmouseover sub menu: array_stat[0] = true
4. on mouseout sub menu: array_stat[0] = false

then for #2, you call the referenced function to sleep for a few hundred milliseconds – then it can run the test on array_stat[0] to see what it currently is. if it’s not true, then hide the menu; otherwise, leave the menu showing. that way, when you mouseout of the menu button, it will have time to get the mouse over the sub menu, which will reset the array_stat[0] status back to true, which will then make sure it stays open when the mouse is over the sub menu – then the mouse out of anywhere will wait the milliseconds and hide it – a few hundred or so is enough to cover the mouse movement from button to menu but also not be visibly noticable when you mouse out completely…

make sense?

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

this might float your boat:

https://developer.apple.com/tools/xcode/index.html

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

java.sun.com has the jre, although i would have them try any other site with a java applet first to verify that this could be the culprit….

as for the gif…it’s really impossible to say from my vantage point as to why a gif won’t play on that computer…it’s a file format that’s been around for years and there is no way that you can “disable” gifs playing in your preferences, so it sounds more like maybe something is not right with their browser/computer… :-/

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

might want to try this in our dreamweaver forum:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/new_view_posts.cgi?forumid=191

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

it’s a known issue in safari related to fonts – a restart of safari should do the trick, but admittedly that is a pain in the rear… :-/

you could also try disabling any font management tools, but again – that sorta sucks to have to do that to read rss articles…so i think for now you might be stuck with it. i have never seen why it happens to some and not others, but that would in many ways be the most common attribute of a bug.

sorry to not have a solution for you…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

works here as well. your friend may no longer have the jre (java runtime environment) installed on his/her computer, which would mean that they have no way to run applets…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

best source is probably here:

https://www.apple.com/support/tiger/network/

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

it’s in the frames – look for the html referfences in the <FRAME tags…

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

yes – there are (unfortunately for the sake of this discussion) more ways than you can count to do this. the basic concept is some sort of scripting language that can write files on the server and some sort of storage system. the former would be something like php, perl, asp, jsp, etc. and the latter would be either a database (mysql, oracle, mssql, access, postgres, etc.) or just simple text files (often easier for simple stuff like this).

the script language serves 2 purposes: 1 as a way to make a page that news can be collected via and stored with, and then another as the way to read the existing news, sort it and show it on a per client basis.

so without knowing anything about your host, available languages, etc., it’s hard to say how you personally could do it. typically most providers support php and/or perl and a basic db like mysql. depending on that, you can also likely find a script online to do this for free, as it’s a very common thing…

hope that helps!

sitruc

[Curtis Thompson]

hello…

i understand your frustration, but i would counter that networking isn’t really broken at all – i have networked os x and windows here since the early days without any problems. by default, os x has limited the samba configuration to only connect to the user’s home drive, but it’s not really a limitation, more just a conscious decision for security and other reasons. you can set up shares in samba (the networking connect tool underneath in os x) by hand that will allow you access to anywhere on the box (if you have permissions), or a tool like this might help:

https://xamba.sourceforge.net/ssp/index.shtml

(no guarantees on that, btw – just a link)

but think about it – you’re on a pc network with a bunch of other computers. do you want any user with that account to have full access to your box? in traditional unix networking, you are rather limited by default so that when you connect, you can’t screw up the system. if you give out full access to your entire box to remote users, then you are opening up a real security hole that typical networking configurations don’t allow. but if you limit them to their home dir, then you control where they go and what they see, which is always much preferred in my book. if you’re in a trusted network, then either os x server or the above tool can help remove that layer of security…

as for the pc, if you are connecting from the mac and getting permissions issues, that is likely not on the mac end…are you able to get at the same files with the same account from another pc on the network? if so, then it could also be workgroup configuration issues or the likes…

sitruc