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Posted on 03.09.2003 08:46:06

All right. First of all I'll re-work the menu a bit, I have created a nice small pull-down menu that will work in all browsers except for the fucking Netscape (so Netscape users will have the same "table menu"). The reason is that there will be more cathegories that wouldn't fit into this menu anymore.

What's planned regarding the content: with the help of John S. Stuart I might be able to upload a complete list of all studio versions, edits, instrumental, collaborations with other artists etc. My friend Alberto Orlandini just came back from London so perhaps with his help I'll make a section devoted to Queen places in London with many photos.

There are two more tasks that are not so easy, First of them is Live Killers - I would like to find out exactly which track comes from which date. Most info that has been written so far is incorrect so I would need some fellow collectors to help me with it.

Second task could be making a section about the band's clothes as somebody already suggested in this forum but I don't know if it would make sense, if there's any demand for such stuff. Or maybe I should make a huge photo gallery with many photos from each tour (so the clothes would be obvious anyway)? I'm not sure about copyrights though.

Any suggestions appreciated. What do you want on this site? (don't ask for MP3's or videos please).

	Posted on 03.09.2003 09:29:20
	I'm looking forward to it.

	Posted on 03.09.2003 20:02:22
	I've always said that you should have a picture section which details which gig the shot comes from (or tour). Sod the legal side, I think QP were more bothered about the mp3s more than anything else. So many other sites have pictures on them and do not get into trouble...

	Posted on 04.09.2003 14:18:18
	OK, I uploaded the new menu. It works in all browsers except for Netscape. Users of this incredibly stupid browser have to do with the old "table menu".

	Posted on 05.09.2003 23:56:55
	By "Netscape" you mean old Netscape 4.7x (which isn't compatible with DOM)? It's couple years old and people who use it should upgrade to something newer or if it's not possible they should be aware of its shortcomings. I use Mozilla (something like Netscape 7.x) and have no problem at all with menu, simply because it's written according to current W3C standards.

	Posted on 08.09.2003 17:59:50
	The menu doesn't work OK here (it used to though) and I'm using IE 6 (with Windows Update updates and all that). First 2 things you mentioned sound great, but personally I'm not interested in the clothes :)

	Posted on 09.09.2003 08:10:14
	Guy, how did you get to the forum if the menu doesn't work OK then? What's exactly the problem? I know it can load a bit slowly so for a while you see only one link under each menu but that improves after a few seconds. Maybe I'll return back to the menu that I used last week which was simplier and probably worked in the same browsers as this new menu.

	Posted on 09.09.2003 09:03:34
	OK, I'm giving up. The menu from last week is back, it seemed to work almost everywhere plus it loaded very quickly. It's a compromise between the old "table" menu and the very new pull-down menu that was loading slowly.

	Posted on 09.09.2003 17:36:32
	It's excellent right now. I use your site a lot so I know you use ?action=page... And remembering "forum" as the page name wasn't hard :P

	Posted on 10.09.2003 09:22:28
	That's correct :-) This dynamic redirecting ensures it will probably always be index.php?action=something, no matter what the directory structure is. I still need somebody with Internet Explorer 5.01 without service packs to test if it can display the menu correctly (at the moment it's set like: if IE >= 5.5 then display new_menu else display old_menu;

	Posted on 16.09.2003 12:20:04
	There's strange problem with this newest menu on all Gecko-based browsers (Mozilla, Firebird, Netscape 7). I can choose menu only 3 upper items in every menu, when I move mouse down to 4th item - menu disappears. I looked into source code, but still don't know why doesn't it work (probably because I know Java Script only a little). BTW: previous version of menu worked fine without any problem.

Posted on 17.09.2003 09:08:06

Thanks, Marcin, you've been a very useful tester for me :-)

I don't know why the menu doesn't work in Mozilla and Netscape, the "div" disappears because it thinks its "onmouseout" although the mouse is still above the div.

The older menu worked in Mozilla (0.8% of users) but had no chance in Internet Explorer 5.0 (8% of users). The new menu works vice versa. Unless I come across a solution, I will rather make the menu available to 8% of users than to 0.8% of users :-)

	Posted on 17.09.2003 14:01:05
	OK, it seems quite fair to me. Especially when there's alternate way to navigate through this page.

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