presenting ASP in pictures in Netscape
I have an ASP based site about cats. There seems to be a major problem with presenting images in Netscape.
The site lets users build a homepage for their cats. User provides some info and pictures and the aplication turns this into a web page.
When you search for cat pages you go to this page:
http://www.thecatsite.net/cats_page.asp
and enter your search definitions (or just ask to view all cats). You then receive a table with thumbnails of the cats as the result. Clicking on a thumbnail will get you to that cat's page.
The problem is that Netscape refuses to show the thumbnails. We really don't know why.
Please do not refer anyone to these pages yet. This is still the beta version and it's not officially launched yet. You can try out the system if you feel like it, but it's all going to be deleted before in a few days.
Any help will be greatly appreciated - I didn't actually write the ASP code. I'm paying someone to do this, but he doesn't know how to solve this one and I thought I'd try and help.
Thanks!
For moderators - I know I started a similar thread in the JavaScript forum - but this is a totally different question, so I would really appreciate it if I can leave both threads.
Mark Hensler posted this at 18:53 — 27th December 2000.
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well, I don't think it's your programmers ASP skills that is the problem... Because everything seems to be printed correctly.
One question, what kind of image type is this:
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anat posted this at 19:16 — 27th December 2000.
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It's a jpg. What do you mean in printing? Like with a printer and paper?
Mark Hensler posted this at 00:50 — 28th December 2000.
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I'm guessing that NN is choking on the extension. But I don't have NN installed so I son't know exacly what's happening
printing...
ASP is a server-side language, so we say that it 'prints' an HTML page and serves that to the client browser.
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Gliebster posted this at 02:05 — 3rd January 2001.
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The .ext files should have a .jpg file extension instead. Explorer understands that they are JPEG files and displays them but Netscape has no idea what they are so it shows a broken image.
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anat posted this at 08:05 — 3rd January 2001.
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Thanks everyone!
We fixed it and it's working now. No offence anyone, but IMO Netscape is a bit well... stupid! It can't figure anything on its own. Different extention, open table tag, anything is enough to throw it out of its wits.
Mark Hensler posted this at 05:33 — 6th January 2001.
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no argument from me...
as I said earlier, I don't have any version of NN installed. That's for a reason... I don't want to use it.
KLWong posted this at 16:10 — 8th January 2001.
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Max,
I would think that as a webmaster you would need to have Netscape installed, if only for the sole purpose of testing your own site. My last step before installing any significant changes to my site is to browse through it with NN. When I first put up a site and friends said there was nothing on the page, I thought they were joking with me. Turns out it was just a missing or something which I had never caught due to my use of IE. I don't want to lose whatever percentage of surfers use NN, as I get so little traffic as it is
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anat posted this at 19:19 — 8th January 2001.
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Yeah I had that happen to me too
Blank page on NN - that was sooooo frustrating! That's what I meant when I said that Netscape is not very "intelligent". But I agree, we do need to test at NN.
My stats show that 15-20% of my visitors use Netscape, so I can't just ignore them.
Mark Hensler posted this at 22:41 — 8th January 2001.
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I do use NN at work. It's installed there, and it's required that all sites work on IE and NN for PC and Mac.
At home, I don't have it installed. Just never bothered (and hate looking at it). I should tho-...
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