IE and images dissapearing?

[Evoir]

I know I asked this before, but my problem is not solved and I can't find the older discussion from many months ago.

So:
I often find, particularly on MY site, that images dissapear when surfing on IE (mac). My main navigation is an image map and it is often not available to me. (no good) What I do end up seeing is a little white square with a red square, blue triangle and a green circle. No navigation.

I don't have this happen in Netscape. I don't have any members complaining. But it sure sux.

Is there something I am doing when writing the html that "encourages" this behaior (bad html?) or is it something else? I don't have this happen nearly as often on other folks sites.

Can you all a) go check it out and see if it happens to you> try reloading a page a few times. That is when it often begins. and b) take a look at my source code and see if there is something glaring that would make this happen. I use Dreamweaver mainly to code the site.

and thank you to anyone who helps me out :D
I really want to solve this problem.

[Bob]

Hi Evoir,

A couple of URL's would be helpful ;)

Have a Good One
Bob

[Evoir]

It is linked just under my usernbame :)

but will also give you the url here (http://www.curvemag.com)

happens oin any page. most often on the main navigation across the top of every page. Sometimes on other images as well.
[This message has been edited by Evoir (edited 04-04-01@1:57 pm)]

[Evoir]

ok. the phenominon just happened to me here, when I read my last posts, the smilie is replaced by the little white box with the circle, sqaure and triangle in it.

-are the men in white coats coming to get me?

[dank]

I don't see anything wrong there, but two things that tend to throw off IE:

1) hovering your mouse over a mouseover image before the image is loaded

2) images that are on a page that results from a POST form, such as search results

The latter is actually a confirmed bug (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q281/1/97.ASP?LN=EN-US&SD=gn&FR=0&qry=no%20ima-ges&rnk=57&src=DHCS_MSPSS_gn_SRCH&SPR=IE).

Dan

[Bob]

Hi again,

It looks like Dan has nailed this one DeadOn !

However I am using IE 6.0 and I am not experiencing these problems, so ???Maybe??? Redmond fixed this one, while leaving 1000's more to be found I am sure :P

Have a Good One,
Bob

[Evoir]

1) hovering your mouse over a mouseover image before the image is loaded
not happening

2) images that are on a page that results from a POST form, such as search results
not happening

??

How is dank dead on?

oh, and not to sound ungrateful, but your replies leave me confused.

[Rich]

Evoir:

I'm not using a Mac, but the only time I have experienced this on my PC is when IE runs low on memory and just starts showing placeholders for the images.

Rich

[Evoir]

I am still stumped. This happens more often than not, and it happens more on MY site than anywhere else. In fact, sometimes I am hard pressed to get it to happen anywhere else.

:(

Frustrating.

[Evoir]

oh, IE has 32 megs of ram allocated to it. Should be plenty.

[dank]

Purely a shot in the dark here, but...[nbsp][nbsp]I noticed that your images are all called through relative URLs, such as:

<img src=&quot;/Images/blah.jpg&quot;>

I've never seen it happen with images, but IE can sometimes get fouled up by relative URLs for links (I've only seen it when the from link resides in the cgi-bin and the to link is outside it).[nbsp][nbsp]Just thinking along those lines, could there be anything going on with an IRM or something similar that is confusing IE as to the relative path?

Dan