On Thu, 8 May 2008 13:54:01 -0700 (PDT), Prisoner at War
<prisoner_at_war@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>Friends, your opinions and advice, please:
>
>I have a very simple JavaScript image-swap which works on my end but
>when uploaded to my host at http://buildit.sitesell.com/sunnyside.html
>does not work.
>
>To rule out all possible factors, I made up a dummy page for an
>index.html to upload, along the lines of <html><head><title></title></
>head><body></body></html>.; the image-swap itself is your basic <img
>src="blah.png" onMouseOver="bleh.gif" onMouseOut="blah.png">.
>
>All file paths are correct; all image files have been uploaded; the
>JavaScript itself, such as it is, is also correct.
>
>That is to say, all very simple.
>
>And still it doesn't work.
>
>Now I contacted their customer/tech support, and only after three days
>with the third rep was it acknowledged that I had a problem which they
>ought to look into (at first they did the usual tech support thing
>and, upon seeing the keyword "JavaScript" immediately disavowed any
>responsibility for my situation, as if I was calling about third-party
>software or something like that).
>
>After another three days of not receiving my files that they asked me
>to send, which I did via Yahoo!, they took a whole week to investigate
>the matter
>
>This is what I was told, in relevant part:
>
>The issue is with how the absolute and relative links are
>used, and our programmers have said (and tested) that
>if you...
>
>1. Upload a dummy file with all the images referenced
>separately, i.e. in separate <img src ="..."> tags
>
>2. Make all the links absolute before uploading
>
>...then what you want to achieve will be successful on
>the live page.
>
>
>Can someone parse that for me, please? I don't understand what's
>being asked of me, exactly.
>
>Am I really being asked to use absolute path-names? Couldn't that
>prove very messy down the road should I decide to move files/pages
>around??
>
>And, moreover, how am I supposed to use separate <img> tags for the
>two image files that are to be used for an image-swap?? How would the
>browser know to link the two in the manner of an image-swap if
>"distributed" over separate <img> tags??
>
>And is it perhaps somehow too much for me to expect my webpages to
>upload "as is" -- or is it not unusual for a webhost to have
>particular requirements about how such things need to be?? SBI! is my
>first webhost so I really don't know what industry standards would be.
bleh.gif would never be parsed as a valid function. By any scripting
engine.
<img src="blah.png" onMouseOver="this.src='bleh.gif';"
onMouseOut="this.src='blah.png';"> will work.
Yet the support is plain clueless. Dump'em. Find yourself a real
hosting service - or host it yourself, all you need is static ip from
your 'net provider. Even plain XP can support up to 80 concurrent
connections - enough for an amateur site. Need more? Get
Linux/Apache for free, or eMule WinServer2003 - Bill Gates surely will
not go broke without your license fee.
NNN