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Sweeeet!  All works fine now under IE.  That being said, I have heard so
many people tell me that they are running FireFox that I guess I should at
least look at it.

This new feedback page is excellent.

Browsers running under Windows XP:

Opera 7.51 (my preferred browser): When the content is hidden (i.e. before I select an item or when I select an item which opens a submenu), a small rectangle of the lavender background color (#ddccdd) is visible. When I click on any item which opens a submenu, it jumps down the page, so that the line reading 'Written by...' is at the top of the screen. When I scroll back up and click on any menu or submenu item which doesn't open another menu, the appropriate content displays on the right, with the top of the #fedead-colored box aligned with the top of the screen.

Mozilla Firefox 1.0: As with Opera, a small lavender rectangle is visible, but with a different size, shape, and location. When I click on any menu item, the top of the screen neatly bisects the question 'What do you want to do?' and the appropriate content displays on the right.

Netscape 7.1: Behaves identically to Firefox. Not surprising, since Netscape is essentially Mozilla.

M$ Aieee! 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158: The full content is visible as the page loads, and instead of the small lavender rectangle seen in other browsers, we have a larger lavender rectangle, whose height always matches the height of the visible portion of the menu tree, and whose width changes every time a different submenu is opened. Clicking on menu items sometimes causes the screen to jump vertically, but only slightly.

Browsers running on a Red Hat Linux system consigned to the 'care' of a Windows devotee:

Netscape Communicator 4.8: Reports two JavaScript errors as the page loads; I assume these are due to an obsolete browser running an obsolete version of JavaScript. The entire menu tree is immediately visible. Clicking on any menu item causes the screen to jump to a seemingly arbitrary point, with an apparent preference for the very bottom of the page. The content which should be associated with the various menu items is nowhere to be found.

Mozilla 1.0.2: When no content is displayed, there is a lavender rectangle at the far right of the screen. This rectangle is equal in height to, and aligned vertically with, the heading 'What do you want to do?'. It is also only slightly wider than this heading, and its width remains fixed when content is opened. Thus the text displays in a very narrow column, with much wasted space in the center of the page. The vertical positioning of the page is exactly as in the Windows version of Firefox.

Konqueror 3.0.5a-0.73.4: The menu tree expands and contracts properly, and clicking on any item causes the screen to jump to the top of the page (which is in my opinion the most sensible place to jump to if you have to jump somewhere). The content which should be associated with the various menu items is nowhere to be found.

General comments reflecting my taste in web design: The fancy JavaScript and CSS stuff would be great, if it worked flawlessly. But if the content can't be gotten to, or if navigating the menus causes jumping to nonintuitive points on the page, it's not worth it. Form should follow function. Also, since so few browsers make a serious attempt to comply with standards, any time you tune something for one or two browsers, you're probably breaking it for the rest.

Now, I only pretend to know HTML, and I know almost nothing about JavaScript or CSS, so forgive me if this is a stupid question: Why are HREFs and NAMEs necessary at all?

I have recently bought a game of Chinese Army Chess from the internet. It consists of 50 tiles 25 which are red and an equal number of black tiles. I have have a copy of the rules, but I have no clue what the Chinese symbols mean on the pieces. Do you know where I can get pictures of the pieces with identity explanation of the Chinese symbols so that I can figure out what the pieces are and be able to play a game? Thanks for your help. John

how do i make the pieces move with my computer

Yeah I have a question.
My sister came home, she has joined the Chess 'Team' at her school
recently, and she told us of this version of Chess she calls 'TAke It'
where the object of the game is to make your oppenent take all of your
peices off the board.
She was rather vague in the rules and its making me a little nuts. I was
wondering if a. you have heard of such a version, b. what it is called?
and c. if perhaps you knew more what the rules where?

Thanks!:D

yes, it is a chess variant, called many names .. Also know as: Suicide
Chess, Losing Chess, Killer Chess, Take-all Chess, Giveaway Chess, Must
Capture Chess .. see here -->
http://www.chessvariants.org/diffobjective.dir/giveaway.html

The only thing related to 'reclaiming a queen' in Chess is the promotion
of a pawn to a queen.  For this to happen, the pawn must reach the final
row of the board, from its owner's perspective - in other words, get your
pawn all the way to the other side of the board, and you can promote it to
a queen.

(Additionally, the term 'reclaiming' is a bit inaccurate here, because
it is possible to get more than one queen by doing this multiple times.)