TonyMontana — Wed, 04 Apr 2001 02:33:51 +0000

And thanks Brian, your suggestions make sense now, and they were the right ones.

TonyMontana

TonyMontana — Wed, 04 Apr 2001 01:19:00 +0000

Thank you, Suzanne. It's much clearer now, and the pages are opening in Netscape.

TonyMontana

Suzanne — Tue, 03 Apr 2001 16:13:02 +0000

Quote: ... Netscape wants to read files with the slash written as /, while the files off my hard drive are written as C:\MyDocuments\Images\Javascript.html.

Ideally, don't use the full path for the images, instead use relative paths for the images and hyperlinks:

images/javascript.html

Otherwise, yes, Netscape reads it slightly differently, preferring file:///c|MyDocuments/Images/Javascript.html where IE wants to do it like Windows.

Using relative paths will remove this problem if it's a hard drive issue.

Suzanne

mairving — Tue, 03 Apr 2001 04:23:40 +0000

The slant to the slashes is a Unix vs. Microsoft thing. Files in Unix all use the /. When Microsoft came out with DOS they tried to emulate this except they messed up and used the \ instead.

You will notice that files that you access on the internet are / since it was unix based.
However, if you open a local file in Explorer, the slash is reversed \

TonyMontana — Tue, 03 Apr 2001 01:13:25 +0000

"Are you calling the image as

TonyMontana — Mon, 02 Apr 2001 23:30:16 +0000

Thanks for your help. I noticed that Netscape wants to read files with the slash written as /, while the files off my hard drive are written as C:\MyDocuments\Images\Javascript.html.

Could this be the cause of the problem? If so, how do I go about changing it?

Thanks,

Tony

If it's JUST Netscape...

Suzanne — Sun, 01 Apr 2001 18:16:21 +0000

Then it's because you have spaces in your file names.

NEVER put spaces in your file names, and ideally, don't use InnerCapitalization either, because you may run into some server conflicts (Unix is case specific, NT isn't).

Suzanne

Brian Farkas — Sun, 01 Apr 2001 03:43:18 +0000

Are the images in the same folder as the HTML page? Are you calling the image as ? Make sure it's not relative to the site root (e.g. /image.jpg) but rather relative to the document (e.g. image.jpg, or if it is in an images folder "images/image.jpg", not /images/image.jpg")

Let me know if this helps. Good luck!

Brian