Broken color rollovers on music-man.com

[Re2kX]

It looks like there's a problem with the rollover color palette on the music-man.com instrument pages. It's not showing up for me anymore, at least in IE7. It's getting a 404 error for the following image:

http://www.music-man.com/instruments/images/fullsize_colorways/66-stealthblack.jpg

I think that may be breaking the script.

(Sorry for posting this on the forum, but the email that I sent to the webmaster account bounced.)

 

[Psycho Ward]

Welcome to the forum...

A bunch of bass players will get this fixed right away for ya...

 

[Frantic Slayer]

didnt the site just come out a beta? ...so im guessing some errors are to be expected

 

[Chewie]

There is a pic now.

Let me know if you see any more like that. Microsoft free company here, makes for testing in IE difficult.

Yesterday I did see the color selector get shifted off the left hand edge of a Internet Exlporer 6 screen on a really really old Windows 2000 machine. If I hit the refresh button, and the color selector loaded properly. IE 6 came out in 2001, so I expect some issues in a 7 year old browser that is for the most part completely unsupported by even Microsoft anymore.

You could be right about a missing image screwing up the page loading or stalling the page loading in IE. That or it's IE and it's notorious for messing up standards based web design.

I've tested it in Firefox, Safari, and Opera and haven't seen any problems. I'm continuing my testing of it in IE.

 

[mynan]

It's still broken in IE7. It shows that the images are loading, but nothing ever comes up on the page.

 

[bovinehost]

You IE girls need to get a man's browser.

 

[jaylegroove]

You IE girls need to get a man's browser.

How true. How can any EBMM player run a PC, while the more noble computer counterpart of EBMM is Apple ?

And yes, Safari (latest release) IS the fastest browser. Ever.

 

[robobass13]

How true. How can any EBMM player run a PC, while the more noble computer counterpart of EBMM is Apple ?

And yes, Safari (latest release) IS the fastest browser. Ever.

Only because it is built on an Intel chip and the OS on a linux kernel.

Oh and a real mans browser is Firefox!!

 

[Re2kX]

I'm still not seeing it either, even thought the image is there. I guess it's a JavaScript or CSS thing. Ah well, reason enough to try out the version of Safari that came with the last iTunes update.

BTW, have you Q/Ced the site on Lynx?

 

[Chewie]

It's all about Lynx.

 

[oli@bass]

Only because it is built on an Intel chip and the OS on a linux kernel.

FYI, Mac OS X is basically a 4.4 BSD Unix with a Mach Kernel. No Linux.

Oh and a real mans browser is Firefox!!

At least it's the best browser for the Windows OS.

Microsoft free company here, makes for testing in IE difficult.

Chewie.... May I suggest you get yourself VMWare with some Win/IE combinations for testing. It saves a lot of time to be able to actually check out the (many) IE problems first hand. Using VMWare you can also have many other more exotic OS/browser combinations to check against.

BTW, VMWare runs on Mac OS as well...

HTH

 

[Chewie]

Yeah already a Vmware fan. Running Fusion on the MM macbook.

I'm aware of it. Gonna have to throw in some browser detection and have a custom IE stylesheet like I do on the EB site.

Let's change the topic.

Anyone think the forums are running faster today?

 

[Dr Stankface]

Oh and a real mans browser is Firefox!!

Amen!

 

[Chewie]

Moderith suggested I do browser detection and if the user is using IE, it redirects them to the firefox download page.

 

[Dr Stankface]

That's why I hate these computers at work. They make us work through this crappy IE! Popup heaven.

 

[Jazzbassman23]

Macolyte here, and while I've tried to like Safari, I keep coming back to Firefox. I downloaded Opera, but have yet to really try it. I won't go anywhere near IE on any machine.

 

[Big Poppa]

I am really enjoying firefox.....maybe chewie can enlighten me with what he is running on the companies macbook!

Hijack Anybody "Stumble" Love it stumble upon is a firefox plug in that is just fabulous

 

[bovinehost]

Chewie, this thing is running considerably faster for me today. Nice work! Arin says you owe him a sandwich.

 

[Chewie]

Running Cactiez in Vmware on the macbook right now. Cacti is a great monitoring tool an old co-worker from my ISP days recommended. I was going to try to install MRTG, but it's such a pain to setup. Cactiez is a linux distro which makes setting up Cacti that much easier. Preconfigured to run out of the box. Haven't found a permanent home for Cacti yet, but in the meantime works great as vmware image.

I've also run Solaris, Ubuntu, and Trixbox all in vmware on the mac. For me it's more about testing new Operating Systems. It so much more convenient than having a test machine(s) you're constantly formatting and installing new OS' on. When you're done testing you just drag it to the trash.

For those people that are trying to free themselves from windows and go mac, I really recommend Vmware Fusion. It has a feature called Unity, so you can add Windows programs to the Mac launch bar and never actually see the Windows desktop. Makes the program appear to be a native Mac app. Haven't done it myself but if you know you need to go mac but can't break your minesweeper addiction, it allows you to put a minesweeper icon down in the toolbar next to your Safari icon.

Parallels works good too. I would say they're both simple and put together well. Pretty much a coin toss as to which is better. Like any thing both have their adamant fan bois that should organize a royal rumble to determine the better product.

The only problems I've had with either is, Parallels doesn't support 64 bit OSes, and Vmware doesn't support OpenGL acceleration in the guest OS. I need to install Solaris 10 64bit with OpenGL support so our Engineers can take the MacBook on the road and use Pro/E. Whichever one satisfies my 64bit and OpenGL prereqs would in my eyes be the better product.

Come on, no one noticed the new Stumbleupon button? lol

 

[phatduckk]

i hate Firefox. Its clunky. they're actually using the wrong async networking APIs in Firefox 2 for OS X which makes the whole browser slow.

that and they run all Proxy auto config scripts synchronously which blocks the whole UI during DNS Resolution.

its all true and FIXED in firefox 3

Safari 3.1 is technically the fastest OS X browser but I dont notice much a practical diff between firefox 3