XP's IE6 Trusted Sites Anomoly :-)

From: RJK (notatospam_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/27/05 

Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:30:32 -0000

I recently made a "rollovers stopped working" post in the
news://news.wanadoo.co.uk/macromedia.dreamweaver
to which there was no reply, so in desperation I post in here, in the hope
there's more brains in here than there is in that Dreamweaver NG !

I spent most of yesterday problem solving this and getting nowhere. This
morning I tried ***something that worked and wondered if anybody could
enlighten me on why and how it worked.

A tiny little bit of background:-
My friends website, (embryonic and still being experimented with - please no
criticism - and I KNOW that I haven't added meta description and keywords
before anybody points that out), ...my friends website resides on his
FreeServe account free webspace at http://www.ajrobo.freeserve.co.uk
He also has a registered domain name http://www.robsonelectrics.co.uk that's
set at Amenworld to point to http://www.ajrobo.freeserve.co.uk

http://www.robsonelectrics.co.uk IS LISTED in my IE6's Trusted Sites Zone so
that all "active" content will / umm...should work. BUT, "rollover" *.gifs
would NOT work in my IE browser, when surfing to
http://www.robsonelectrics.co.uk Spent HOURS on that in DW yesterday
..mucking up my web pages.

The ***something I tried was to add http://www.ajrobo.freeserve.co.uk (the
actual location of his web pages), into my IE6's Trusted Sites Zone - and -
lo and behold the animated *.gif / Dreamweaver / rollovers WORKED when
surfing to http://www.robsonelectrics.co.uk

Any comments or observations about my IE6 settings would be appreciated.
e.g. Are these "rollovers" going to fail for most people that surf to a web
page containing active content such as DW rollovers, even if visitors could
be charmed into adding a web address into their Trusted Sites Zone - namely
http://www.robsonelectrics.co.uk It seems ridiculous to ask people to add
TWO web addresses into their Trusted Sites Zone, in order to correctly view
just one web-site.

Before I'm lectured on web design I realise that it's possible to build
quite professional web pages without active content, thus ensuring that
they'll work in most peoples we-browsers irrespective of age of machine,
brand of web-browser etc. ...which is why I've configured my friends' home
page without active content (..well there's two animated gifs on it!) as a
"gateway" to two sites - one with active content and one without.

regards, Richard

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