Comments on: IE Bug dealing with CSS custom cusors

By: sstchur

sstchur — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:23:55 +0000

Glad it helped!

By: keith

keith — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 22:19:04 +0000

wow. 5 years and 2 months later, I came across this post and it explains the issue ever so well. We don't support IE7 much anymore, but when IE7 users would hit our site, it would try and grab a url that didn't exist and was causing some load on the server.

By: Custom Cursor with click animation + crossbrowser support | Nuclear's Blog

Custom Cursor with click animation + crossbrowser support | Nuclear's Blog — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:30:47 +0000

[...] AGAIN, here comes shitload of problems again: 1) locating .cur files for CSS cursor is so buggy and retarded, this bug exists I think in all IE versions (atleast IE6-9 it does). I didn't want to waste [...]

By: Strategy war game

Strategy war game — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:34:37 +0000

Same bug still exists in IE9

This is a PITA as all my CSS + images are located on different servers.

By: Joey Bendlage

Joey Bendlage — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 18:48:12 +0000

Very helpful!!

By: SL

SL — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:39:31 +0000

Baffling, really. For anyone using a CDN for static file hosting, this is a headache. Having relative paths to the CSS file is an absolute must since the document and css file have use different domains altogether.

I am absolutely shocked to find this post from 2006 and realize this bug can still be found in IE8. I mean – WTF?????

By: tee

tee — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:16:54 +0000

Das Problem ist, dass der Startpunkt des relativen Pfades beim IE nicht die CSS-Datei ist, sondern die Position der HTML-Seite welche das CSS einbindet!

hass hass hass!

By: relative oder absolute Pfadangabe - XHTMLforum

relative oder absolute Pfadangabe - XHTMLforum — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:26:25 +0000

[...] innerhalb CSS Dateien. Im Gegensatz zu Firefox konnte IE die Pfade nicht finden. Hier ist ein Blog Eintrag zu diesem [...]

By: Madster

Madster — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:45:31 +0000

I know this post is old but it took me a while to figure out.

IE6, Opera and Webkit do not support custom cursors over image map areas at all.
Firefox 3 does.

Don't know about other IEs or browsers.

By: Dutchski

Dutchski — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:38:23 +0000

Alaink:

For applets and scripts, a fixed location or root path combined with always works best (as in: most reliable, *if* you keep all your applets/scripts in a predefined location).

As far as anything else goes – it appears there's a web-wide discussion/confusion on what the best method is. Saila (http://saila.com/webdesign/tips/linking/) makes a good argument:

"If the site has a basic hierarchical structure, relative links are the best choice. Complex sites, or those with dynamically generated pages (like this one), are usually best served by absolute links."