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Cool Menus Not Working -
A Replacement Browser Check Script for Cool Menus 3, Cool Menus 4

With the release of IE 7 (Internet Explorer 7) many web masters were pulling their hair out trying to figure out why their Cool Menus 3 and Cool Menus 4 navigation scripts were not working.

Cool Menus were originally written and support by Thomas Bratta, Java Script king, web developer. In early part of 2000 his scripts were avaible for use and download on Dynamic Drive.com which is currently not working or is defunct. We are hoping Mr. Bratta makes a return or starts a new website. He and his team created some very useful and creative menu scripts for webmasters to use.

Now to the heart of the matter
In the old script their was a browser script check function. Here is the script in it’s orginal form.
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function lib_bwcheck(){ //Browsercheck (needed)
this.ver=navigator.appVersion; this.agent=navigator.userAgent
this.dom=document.getElementById?1:0
this.ie5=(this.ver.indexOf("MSIE 5")>-1 && this.dom)?1:0;
this.ie6=(this.ver.indexOf("MSIE 6")>-1 && this.dom)?1:0;
this.ie4=(document.all && !this.dom)?1:0;
this.ie=this.ie4||this.ie5||this.ie6
this.mac=this.agent.indexOf("Mac")>-1
this.opera5=this.agent.indexOf("Opera 5")>-1
this.ns6=(this.dom && parseInt(this.ver) >= 5) ?1:0;
this.ns4=(document.layers && !this.dom)?1:0;
this.bw=(this.ie6 || this.ie5 || this.ie4 || this.ns4 || this.ns6 || this.opera5 || this.dom)
return this
}
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IE 7 Menus Problems

When IE 7 was released in 2006 the drop down functions in Cool Menus 3 systems and early versions of Cool Menus 4. This was really odd, because the drop down functionality would still work in Fire Fox and Netscape. After some months of research we found a replacement browser check script that restores the drop down menus in the Cool Menus system.

Here is the new ‘Browser Check Function Script’
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function lib_bwcheck(){ //Browsercheck (needed)
this.ver=navigator.appVersion; this.agent=navigator.userAgent
this.dom=document.getElementById?1:0
this.ie5=(this.ver.indexOf("MSIE 5")>-1 && this.dom)?1:0;
this.ie6=(this.ver.indexOf("MSIE 6")>-1 && this.dom)?1:0;
this.ie7=(this.ver.indexOf("MSIE 7")>-1 && this.dom)?1:0;
this.ie4=(document.all && !this.dom)?1:0;
this.ie=this.ie4||this.ie5||this.ie6 || this.ie7
this.mac=this.agent.indexOf("Mac")>-1
this.opera5=this.agent.indexOf("Opera 5")>-1
this.ns6=(this.dom && parseInt(this.ver) >= 5) ?1:0;
this.ns7=(this.dom && parseInt(this.ver) >= 5) ?1:0;
this.ns4=(document.layers && !this.dom)?1:0;
this.bw=(this.ie7 || this.ie6 || this.ie5 || this.ie4 || this.ns4 || this.ns6 || this.opera5 || this.dom)
return this
}
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Simply replace the old browser check script with the new one above and you are good to go!