Friends, your opinions and advice, please:
I have a very simple JavaScript image-swap which works on my end but
when uploaded to my host at http://buildit.sitesell.com/sunnyside.html
does not work.
To rule out all possible factors, I made up a dummy page for an
index.html to upload, along the lines of <html><head><ti tle></title></
head><body></body></html>.; the image-swap itself is your basic <img
src="blah.png" onMouseOver="bl eh.gif" onMouseOut="bla h.png">.
All file paths are correct; all image files have been uploaded; the
JavaScript itself, such as it is, is also correct.
That is to say, all very simple.
And still it doesn't work.
Now I contacted their customer/tech support, and only after three days
with the third rep was it acknowledged that I had a problem which they
ought to look into (at first they did the usual tech support thing
and, upon seeing the keyword "JavaScript " immediately disavowed any
responsibility for my situation, as if I was calling about third-party
software or something like that).
After another three days of not receiving my files that they asked me
to send, which I did via Yahoo!, they took a whole week to investigate
the matter
This is what I was told, in relevant part:
The issue is with how the absolute and relative links are
used, and our programmers have said (and tested) that
if you...
1. Upload a dummy file with all the images referenced
separately, i.e. in separate <img src ="..."tags
2. Make all the links absolute before uploading
....then what you want to achieve will be successful on
the live page.
Can someone parse that for me, please? I don't understand what's
being asked of me, exactly.
Am I really being asked to use absolute path-names? Couldn't that
prove very messy down the road should I decide to move files/pages
around??
And, moreover, how am I supposed to use separate <imgtags for the
two image files that are to be used for an image-swap?? How would the
browser know to link the two in the manner of an image-swap if
"distribute d" over separate <imgtags??
And is it perhaps somehow too much for me to expect my webpages to
upload "as is" -- or is it not unusual for a webhost to have
particular requirements about how such things need to be?? SBI! is my
first webhost so I really don't know what industry standards would be.
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