I notice and maybe other users too that if the pageear is positioned near a menu item / navigation or primary links and the page is not fully loaded, I mean waiting for all element to load specially the peel or the big flash image ( the writeobject function is called at the very bottom of the page ). The menu item becomes unclickable. This is more noticeable if you have a sucky internet connection but if you have a good broadband connection you have no problem with this.

The problem can be easily solved if you moved the pageear away from your menu or navigation links, example if your menu is on the top right then it is better to position your pageear in top left of the page and vice versa.

In my observation the problem of unclickable link has something to do with the peelDiv positioning and it's z-index property value, because the flash file is waiting for the big image to be loaded but the script already positioned the flash in the top corner making all other element underneath its flash layer specially the menu or navigation unclickable.

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manfer’s picture

Assigned: Unassigned » manfer

The problem is that as the pageear is loading the big flash movie that makes the peel effect is present on page. Though it is a transparent 500px x 500px movie it is there. That let's you see what is behind it but makes that content unclickable. If you click there you are clicking flash movie.

Why it has to be there while loading? Because if it is not there windows browsers never play that movie (for non windows browsers I could put the movie out of the page and works), media for that movie never load and as a result pageear never loads.

The problem would be only first time while media loads. After that all would be cached on user browsers so any reload of site would show pageear instantly.

Let's test a workaround making it be behind other content with z-index while it is loading. Please danreb test:

http://www.pageeargpl.co.cc

with your browsers when you can. It seems it is working.

As soon as possible I would make the change. This change seems useful enough to make a new recommended release RC2 version.

manfer’s picture

Status: Needs work » Active
danreb’s picture

The adjustment you made to the z-index works fine now.

manfer’s picture

Status: Active » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.