Position menu above iframe in older browsers

Hello Angus and all,

I may (??) have managed to have menus always show above iframes, even in browsers that treat iframes as windowed objects. An explanation is given at:
http://www.let.rug.nl/~molendyk/IframeShimArie.

But I didn't have the opportunity to test the technique on browsers like IE5=< and Opera<9. If someone could tell me on this forum if it works (or not) on these browsers, it would be very helpful.

It's nothing special. When the mouse is over the menu, the iframe object is simply replaced by it's content (content isn't an object). When the mouse leaves the menu, the content is replaced again by the iframe itself.

Thanks a lot,
Arie Molendijk.

Hello Angus,
Thanks for the quick reply. Something should be done indeed about the scrolling problem.

As for the issue that is really important to me: in all HttpRequest scripts that I've tried, the back button is disabled. Moreover, in HttpRequest scripts AND in scripts using the hidden iframe trick for including pages, separate scripting in the remote files is impossible (all the scripting has to be done in the 'parent page').

So  the reason why I was playing around with the idea that I submitted here is that I wanted something which does not disable the back button and which makes 'independent' scripting possible. My 'solution' meets these requirements (click on PAGE 1 and PAGE 2 of the two pages: the 'alarm' that pops up is not handled in the 'parent page', but in the external files themselves).

Good luck,
Arie.

Sorry, mistake!