Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Laura Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.problems.internet Subject: Re: HOW DO I .... Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:52:33 +0100 Organization: SCEE Lines: 52 Message-ID: <33B23BE1.16A7@interactive.sony.com> References: <33b22427.1017358@news.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.203.13.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) William Docherty wrote: > > Hi, > Can someone explain something... > > However upon testing the web site under Microsoft Internet Explorer, > the gfx & pages are referenced wrongly. It tries to find files along > the lines of "\WebPages\WebGfx\pic.jpg". ie, it appears to reference > pages within frames from the source of were the frames html file is > stored (being the directory WebPages for all html files apart from > index). I can fix this problem by removing references to "WebGfx" and > "WebPages" from the source making it work under Explorer, but of > course this stops it working on Navigator. > Forgive me if you have tried all these things but these are all that I can think of from what you have written. Maybe the problem is the path name. / = www.playstation.co.uk /~myname = www.playstation.co.uk/~myname If you put a forward slash (/) before any path name then a browser takes the start of the path form the root, in this case the root is www.playstation.co.uk . Also, when you use frames, the top page (let's call it A) calls other pages (lets call them A1 and A2). Any links/files called from A1 and A2 must use the path name relevent to A1 and A2 and not to A. If you are having problems use the absolute path name (/~myname/directoryname/filename) (it mucks up the mirror sites but should make it work at first). The other annoying thing about Frames is that Explorer allows you to put the tag in the calling frame (the one we called 'A' above) but Navigator doesn't. Navigator won't recognise the tag if you do put in it. (Took me absolutely AGES to work that one out and drove me mad.) That's a bit strange because it is usually Explorer which is more pedantic about correct HTML. The other thing to remeber is that the Server is UNIX so be careful of using different cases for file and directory names. If you used a PC to make the HTML pages, you won't have noticed the different cases so it can be confusing when it suddenly stops working. If you tell me your ID then I can check out the HTML and see if I can see the problem. Laura