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Introducing Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
Scott Fegette (Oct. 15, 2008)
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To-do List
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Developer: Spry team
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Developer: Don Booth
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Navigation Rollover issues in Firefox
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I've tested my rollover nav in Safari, IE, and Firefox and the rollover for one of my buttons isn't working. I've reloaded the nav, debugged, and combed the code, even reloaded the nav with new images, and it isn't working. Test site is loaded on: www.truenorthe.com/IsaacTest/index.html
Flash movie going outside container
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Firefox is ignoring container div for a flash movie from a Dreamweaver template.
overflow set to hidden value in DIV tag not working when wraps an OBJECT tag that loads flash
Posted by barleby_sp at 01:50 AM on Oct 10, 2008
trying to hide part of an <object> tag that loads flash content (when using a wrapping <div> smaller in height than the object flash) results in no hidding at all. Affected browsers: Firefox 2.x and Firefox 3.x
Safari 2.0 ignores a styles sheet or part of the styles sheet
Posted by Thierry Koblentz at 12:34 PM on Dec 19, 2007
When using the "_property" or "*property" hack, Safari 2.0 cannot make sense of the styles sheet. i.e. selector {*color:red}
Pseudoclasses work inconsistently in non-IE browsers
Posted by jjmillz at 7:13 PM on Sep 20, 2007
I used the a:active property in css to try and get link colors to update correctly when clicked, but it only works on my Internet Explorer and not Safari or Firefox.
