perhaps this is the wrong newsgroup?...

[ApplePlexy]

I was suprised to have no replies to the following... couild anyone suggest
a more appropriate group to post it? It's doing my head in lol

"I have been designing an ASP website on and off for a while for a local
academy, It's searchable, has random elements and has all info including
image targets (simple text recall from the database)located in an access
database. All has been well for a while until recently SOME people can't see
any images in one section of the site.
http://mafa.org.uk/new/list_img.asp (select any image to goto the artist
page or use this link, http://mafa.org.uk/new/ft_artist.asp?id=38 to go
straight to a problem page.). I have accessed this section on four separate
machines (including a computerised cash-till!) and had no trouble viewing
images. I cant begin to think what the problem might be, I suspect that my
web-host has relocated their severs recently and reasigned certain
permissions on the database directory (I think), which is something i'll
address later today, but the fact that some can see images and some can't
baffles me. All other infor displays corrently on these pages and are read
from the same database - its just the images that don't show. All have used
internet explorer and i have used explorer, netscape and mozilla without any
problems."

Apple

 

[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

I was suprised to have no replies to the following... couild anyone
suggest a more appropriate group to post it? It's doing my head in lol

"I have been designing an ASP website on and off for a while for a
local academy, It's searchable, has random elements and has all info
including image targets (simple text recall from the database)located
in an access database. All has been well for a while until recently
SOME people can't see any images in one section of the site.

This is a clue that this is not an asp issue, which explains why no one in
this group has attempted to answer it. ASP is server-side technology which
simply generates the html that is sent to the client machines. Once the user
is viewing the page in the browser, it is totally outside the realm of ASP.
Client-side issues like this are almost always related to browser/OS issues
that are unlikely to be diagnosed in a newsgroup. Hands-on diagnosis is the
only way to get to the bottom of this type of issue, which may have entirely
different solutions on each of the machines experiencing the problem.

However, you might try coompiling the characteristics of each of the
machines experiencing the problem, see if you can come up with any
similarities and post to a newsgroup devoted to the browser or OS that most
exhibits the symptom. Google may also help ....

Sorry,
Bob Barrows

 

[ApplePlexy]

Thanks for responding - I accept that it's not an ASP issue, although as it
only seemed to be happening on the most ASP intesive page on the site I
wondered if I'd missed something.- given that on some machines the HTML
isn't being generated correctly. Good advice to turn me from an ASP
newsgroup however, I'll try a general webdesign/browser group as you
suggest.

Thanks again.

 

[Bob Barrows [MVP]]

Thanks for responding - I accept that it's not an ASP issue, although
as it only seemed to be happening on the most ASP intesive page on
the site I wondered if I'd missed something.- given that on some
machines the HTML isn't being generated correctly.

Well that's new information. Is that the cause of the symptoms? i mean, is
the incorrect html something that all the machines exhibiting the symptoms
have in common?
If so, let's have some more details.

Bob Barrows