[Alcivar]

Hello all -
I'm developing a FREE movie website
( see: http://www.idriveinmovie.com )
The problem is that the rollover buttons on the web page won't function until the Quicktime movie file on the page is completely downloaded. This problem persists regardless of how the Quicktime files are exported when created.

Although the pages work fine with Safari and Explorer on the Mac, it does NOT in Firefox on the Mac or PC. It also does NOT work in Explorer on the PC.

I'm wondering if there's something specific with Firefox that I should be aware of in regards to coding the web pages. If anyone has any ideas I'd like to hear them. Thanks!

[Catalyst]

You're using "body onload" to run your jscript which is going to wait until the page loads to pre-load your images. Instead run preload() as the page is loading.

[Alcivar]

Catalyst, on Apr 16 2007, 05:44 PM, said:

You're using "body onload" to run your jscript which is going to wait until the page loads to pre-load your images. Instead run preload() as the page is loading.

OK, That makes sense. How do I "run preload() as the page is loading."?
In other words what's the alternative to putting the command onload="preloadImages();" in the body tag?

This post has been edited by Alcivar: 16 April 2007 - 06:01 PM

[Catalyst]

Change

var preloadFlag = false;

to

preloadImages();
var preloadFlag = false;

These days I like using jQuery for image rollovers, if you continue having problems or need other javascripting in your site you might look into it:
http://www.freaksauce.com/blog/2007/03/sim...-rollovers.html
You won't need all those onmouseover, onmouseout attributes and all the other stuff.

[Alcivar]

Catalyst, on Apr 17 2007, 02:01 AM, said:

Change

var preloadFlag = false;

to

preloadImages();
var preloadFlag = false;

Thank you. I made that change but Unfortunately the problem seems to persist.
(see: http://www.idriveinm...iler_medium.htm )

Catalyst, on Apr 17 2007, 02:01 AM, said:

These days I like using jQuery for image rollovers, if you continue having problems or need other javascripting in your site you might look into it:
http://www.freaksauce.com/blog/2007/03/sim...-rollovers.html
You won't need all those onmouseover, onmouseout attributes and all the other stuff.

I will look into this, but being that I'm not proficient in coding, I anticipate it will take some time to figure out how to incorporate that code into my particular navigation scheme. In the meantime I'm compelled to try and get my present code working which, by the way, was generated automatically in ImageReady. If I had to write the code myself I couldn't do it, which is why I'm trying to find a solution on this forum.

This post has been edited by Alcivar: 19 April 2007 - 03:56 PM

[Alcivar]

I'm now converting some QT files into Flash FLV files. So far the pages I've converted do not exhibit these problems and many people have reported suddenly being able to see the videos whereas before they could not. For example see this page:
http://www.idriveinm...iler_medium.htm

When encoded properly, a flv file can compare to the quicktime format in quality while decreasing it's size by about 50% and the JS used to access the file for the webpage seems to handle the caching of the page data differently than the Quicktime embed tag so that the buttons work fine as the flv downloads, which of course is a solution to my original problem.

Although Quicktime is my favorite video media, for internet delivery without a streaming server it seems the Flash FLV is the smarter choice right now.

[Catalyst]

Yep, much better choice.

[TJSingleton]

Catalyst, on Apr 17 2007, 02:01 AM, said:

These days I like using jQuery for image rollovers,

Spread the jQuery love.