Thanks Predz. At least I now know it's just my settings mostly. What I don't understand though is why I can visit Xoops.org using IE and the menus work? The XOOPS site must have set something that I haven't?

I've checked that Java Scripting is enabled, and it is. So I don't know what the problem could be. Nevermind.

How do I change the colour of the drop down menus like you suggested BTW?

blah.. M$ java support in IE is crap to be honest and doesn't always function correctly..

i would try going to http://java.sun.com/ and downloading their latest java plugin.. it works a treat and is far more superior and stable.. it might be worth a try..

That won't make a difference - the menus use Javascript, not Java

You're not imagining the problem, Ted. I've got the same, I can see the menus at xoops.org, but not at your site. Weird...

Rowd

Mmm, I went to the the java.com site and downloaded the auto plug-in using IE, and it reported to have installed it OK, but the problem persists, so you are right Rowdie.

I guess it's just one of those mysterious settings buried so deep somewhere that I'll never know. Bummer. Hopefully a minority of users will be affected and not a majority.

actually.. hmmm your site is coming along very nicely indeed ted :)

and i can't believe i'm gonna say this :S, but i can't get the menu's to work on your site either.. but every other site i goto works fine.. this is strange.. :S

Maybe this could be an intressting hint: http://www.hoeben.net/node/view/33

but otherwise why did i can use it fine on your site ??? M$ mysterium arghhh

Hi, I also have this problem with my newwbb2 addition to my site.

I just wondered if anyone know what is actually causing it.

I looked at the article referenced in the last post, but I don't know how to change the mime types... (AND link on that page does not appear to be working today)

I looked at lost doggies site, and that appears to work fine for me (under IE) but my own site is having none of it.

Dave

I cannot remember if I did anything to correct it. In fact, it's only since your visit to my site that I remembered. It does seem to be wroking for me also, although from the posts above it's almost certainly related to the configuration settings of individuals. I just cannot remeber what they might have been.

Have you got the latest Xoops, and NewBB2 installed? That might be something to do with it. Sorry I cannot be more help.

(BTW - I have deleted your post that you made on my site forum because it isn't for XOOPS queries).

Ted

Well I am still having problems, I almost don't care about it, but someone brought it to my attention again recently so I thought I would have another crack at figuring it out, unfortunately I don't understand PHP well enough to get there on my own...

So a few more details...
I have 2 sites, one is mainly just for testing, unfortunately its the live site that has the problem .. grrr.

Ok in the forums on the respective sites there are menus that appear when you run the mouse over them, these menu's are ONLY in the forums.

Under Firefox/Opera/Mozilla/Epiphany (what ever its called) these menu's work fine.

In IE the menus do not pop up.

I have IE 6, on winXP with Service Pack 2. (each of the users that have mentioned the problem are in the same boat here - so one test I have not had the opportunity to try is does this effect SP1 users or users of earlier IE versions?)

The site admin at the failing site emailed me to let me know that the menu's do work if you use an anonymizer style service. Which is even more confusing.
Service:
http://www.the-cloak.com/login.html

I don't mind chopping and changing code, but I don't know what to change as the problem only seems to effect IE users visting one site.

One more point is that IE users make up just under 50% of traffic, its enough for me to want to figure it out, but not enough for me to rip everything out and start again.

I wonder if another pair of eyes might figure this out.

A link to my test site (a working -test- forum):
This one works

And a link to a thread on the site that has the problem:
This one doesn't


Any suggestions:

Thanks

Dave

If I examine the source of the pages (I realise the server has already done the work by the time I do this) I see some differences:
WORKING

NOT WORKING

The difference's are in BOLD, this is the first time I have noticed that one page is serving .gif file and the other is serving.png files.. BUT the biigest difference appears to be this: &PHPSESSID=97b677c9e0bd02d3364033a52df99f5e"

So any tips people?

Thank you for any help