The InfoBox is your god

for the record, I'm using IE 6.x and your Infobox madness works fine. So much for your cackling, maniacal attempt at foiling my plans for world domination.

Back to the volcano hide-out for me.

M

You'll be real disappointed when you scroll the page down and then try using an InfoBox. IE6 is broken. So there. Ha!

Works fine in IE 5.2.2 on Mac OS X even after scrolling down.

I should have pointed out that only IE6 will be broken. The reason is that when IE6 sees a DOCTYPE tag, it puts itself into "standards compliant" mode. The problem is, what Microsoft calls "standards compliant" mode really just means that IE stops doing all the bad stuff it shouldn't have been doing to begin with, but it doesn't implement many very important DOM2 features. The result is that, while there's a way to make Opera and older versions of IE do what I want, the only way to make IE6 do what I want would be to remove the page's DOCTYPE tag, and I don't want to do that.

Um, ok.. infoboxes are cool.. now if only they would show up on TOP of the other text so that they are readable or viewable. Just a little suggestion. problem occurs in IE 6 and opera 7. I don't have other browsers to test with.

Fixed.

Have scanned doctored past posts. I see that you intend to use them as VH1 pop-ups "Behind the Blogging"

Exactly. Or they could turn out to be more trouble than they're worth. Probably the latter. We'll see.

I guess the infoboxes get displayed in IE6, alright, they just don't get positioned where they should be. If the infobox links are at the top of a page, they get displayed at the correct location, but if you have to scroll down to hover over the links, the infoboxes get positioned too high up, and possibly above the viewable area altogether. It seems that the IE6-problem is one of offset rather than appearance.

Exactly. The problem stems from the fact that IE (and Opera) implement a broken method of retrieving the mouse cursor position via the DOM. Specifically, they give you the cursor position relative to the top of the document, no matter whether the page is scrolled. Mozilla (and Netscape 4, ironically) properly give you the cursor position relative to the window, which is not affected by scrolling.

But IE6 does something else stupid. While Opera lets you retrieve the number of pixels that the document has been scrolled (which number can then be added to the reported mouse position to get the actual mouse position), IE6 only lets you do this if the page doesn't have a DOCTYPE tag. And of course, if the page doesn't have a DOCTYPE tag, it's not standards-compliant. And since I'm a stickler for compliance, the DOCTYPE tag stays and IE6 is broken, whereas IE5, Opera, and maybe even IE4 will work just fine.

It's a sorry state of affairs.