Using Tipster on https: pages causes error in IE6

1) brillo Group: Members
Posts: 19 Joined: 20 May 2006 Location: San Francisco USA IP: 67.188.--.--

Posted:

On IE6 (not sure about IE7), when a user hovers over an image that has a title and the page uses the tipster that turns all titles to tips... I get the error "this page contains secure and non secure items. do you want to view non secure items?"

Any idea how to fix this?

2) Angus Turnbull Group: Moderators
Posts: 4235 Joined: 7 Dec 2003 Location: New Zealand IP: 125.236.--.--

Posted:

It'll probably be the IFRAME select-box-fix causing that, disable it (by settings its option property to false) or hack it to load a "blank.html" file as the iframe SRC.

Good luck - Angus.

3) brillo Group: Members
Posts: 19 Joined: 20 May 2006 Location: San Francisco USA IP: 67.188.--.--

Posted:

Hi Angus,

We're not using iframes -- but I do see:
IESelectBoxFix = true;

Is this it? If I put to false, will tipsters show up behind the input/select boxes?

I don't have an iframe SRC -- what's the alternative?

Thanks,
Abril

4) Angus Turnbull Group: Moderators
Posts: 4235 Joined: 7 Dec 2003 Location: New Zealand IP: 125.236.--.--

Posted:

If you make it "false" the problem will disappear, but the tips will show behind select boxes in MSIE.

The IFRAME is used by the SelectBoxFix internally in the script. To fix it properly so everything works, open "tipster_commented.js" in a text editor and search for "iframe src", you will see there is an IFRAME inside the script that is set to src="about:blank". Edit that so it says "blank.html", upload a corresponding file, and use that JS file in place of tipster.js

Good luck - Angus.

Using Tipster on https: pages causes error in IE6

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