MSIE Extras

Most people now days use Microsoft Internet Explorer to surf the web. Below are some odds and ends explaining some of the unusal querks of the program.

Image toolbar (MSIE 6)
Add to Favorites
Make this my homepage

Image toolbar (MSIE 6)

This toolbar appear when you hover your mouse over an image. It allows you to copy, print or save the picture which is a problem if you have copyrighted materal on you site. However it can be completely disabled simply follow these instructions.

To disable for the entire page place the tag below in to the HEAD section of your html page.
   <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no">

If you only need to disable the toolbar for a single image then you can add the attribute GALLERYIMG="no" to the apropiate IMG tag.
   e.g. <img src="image.jpg" galleryimg="no" ... >

Add to Favorites

Drop the code below into one of your pages and when viewed with IE the user will be presented with a hyperlink that adds the page to thier favorites folder.

<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
if ((navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE") > 0)
  && (parseInt(navigator.appVersion) >= 4 )) {
	document.write("<a href='#' onclick='window.external.AddFavorite(" +
	          "location.href, document.title);'>Add to my favorites</a>");
}
//-->
</script>

Make this my homepage

Try clicking on this link and your browser will ask you if it is okay to change your home page. Quite handy if placed on a good portal site because it makes it even easier for someone to use it as their home page.

Simply copy the text below and paste it in to your webpage changing the address to you're own.

<a href="#" onClick="style.behavior='url(#default#homepage)'; setHomePage('http://www.foobar.dom/');">Make this my homepage</a>