Re: (non-)Lame sco.com website

From: Bob Bailin (72027.3605_at_compuserve.com)
Date: 11/27/03 

Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:28:49 -0500

"Bob Bailin" <72027.3605@compuserve.com> wrote in message
news:bq3tl5$i2p$1@ngspool-d02.news.aol.com...
>

> I've never seen this happen on any other website I've ever visited, no
> matter
> how poorly designed, and it occurs
> consistently on several different machines running IE6SP1, fully patched
up,
> on both WinXP and Win98SE. There are no enduser settings for Macromedia
> that I'm aware of, and I can't begin to guess at which IE6 option may be
> the culprit, but I tend to be consistent in my settings to achieve a
> standard
> level of "security" on the Win systems I'm responsible for.
>
> So I'll put everything back to their default settings, and go from there.
>
> A google search for: popup menu behind flash
> yields reports of similar problems, but they all seem to be an inherent
> problem of using objects like flash with dhtml layers, and shouldn't be
> affected by any IE6 settings. Unfortunately, this is all outside my area
> of expertise.
>
> Bob
>
>

Well, I finally discovered a truly vanilla installation of WinXP right under
my nose, as it turns out, a dual boot of my home system that I use for
testing only. The sco.com popup menus worked perfectly on that system,
probably because I had never installed Flash on it before.

So, back to this Win98SE system, I attempted to remove all traces of
Flash & Shockwave (truly a royal pain), rebooted, installed Flash from
macromedia.com and lo and behold, the drop down menus at sco.com
now work as expected. Hard to believe I have this same problem on
so many other windows machines on our LAN. Well, maybe not.

SCO's website is not at fault after all, and as I stated in email to a
couple
of people from SCO who contacted me directly, I apologize for the tone
and nature of my original cusm posting. But, as I also wrote to them,
this wouldn't have been necessary if somebody had just gotten back to
me weeks ago when I first mentioned this problem to them thru feedback.
An unrelated issue about SCO's ftp site submitted at the same time was
answered promptly within a day or two.

Bob

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