The webpage attempts to display a dropdown menu making heavy use of CSS
and <UL>, <LI> tags. From my investigation, the standard CSS Hover
pseudo attrib is being used, which I figure is the reason for IE7's
usage (to translate all HOVER attribs to a JS equiv for IE6). I've
disabled the IE7 library and IE6 eventually displays the page without
locking up. I've used:
TIDY.EXE -ascii -i -f errors.txt -m PageFreeze.htm
to cleanup the HTML and match up any possibly missing tags but still
the same effect. I've even copied the text into W3C's Validator
without luck. One thing i did notice is that the IE6 browser does
freeze preventing me from dragging the scrollbar or anything else
within the entire browser (insisting on being END PROCESSED) but
eventually (after 15 mins or more) the web page menu system appears,
however when i hover my mouse over it the entire screen freezes again,
and after another 15 mins or more the menu dropdown appears. This
occurs for each menu item i hover over. Clipping the menus to only one
does reveal the page much sooner so perhaps the freezing is more about
huge processing than about an actual lock up?
Please, does anyone have any clues on why this locking up is occurring
and its resolution?
You can see the test page here:
(This page does not freeze IE6 because IE7 Library has been disabled in
tags):
http://www.spunge.org/~tony/help3/PageNoFreeze.htm
(This page freezes IE6. IE7 Library is enabled in tags):
http://www.spunge.org/~tony/help3/PageFreeze.htm
(This page momentarily freezes IE6 but only contains a single menu
item):
http://www.spunge.org/~tony/help3/Pa...nuNoFreeze.htm
The pages need to not freeze and show dropdown menus if all is ok.
Just a oddity, notice that when you hover over Government and it
underlines the word. It seems to take a second longer than when the
underline is placed beneath other words. Also I've tried removing much
of the UL/LI menu items and leaving one or two and the freezing of IE
has gone down from 5 mins+ to a few seconds and the menu dropdown
appears. Again, Im suspecting the depth of the menu system and IE7
library are at fault. But a solution to have the menus in full is what
Im after.
Thank you.
