Web Dev Nerds: Random layer position in Mozilla?

[igBand]

Anyone have any code I can lift that will make a layer randomly position itself around a screen (in a "screensaver" type fashion)? I need to move an image around the screen randomly as a screensaver for a large plasma screen. All resources I've found work great in IE and Netscape, but don't seem to work in Mozilla/Firefox (OS we are restricted to using).

This whole DHTML thang is pretty new to me and my javascript know-how extends are far as the copy-and-paste button.

Hoping someone can shed some light on this for me...I've hunted far and wide and the few solutions I've found don't seem to work for my environment.

Many thanks in advice for any insight.

[igBand]

Anyone?

I promise I'd trade for naked pics of the sis if I had one.

[coastal]

If your script is working in a newer version of Netscape then it should work fine in Firefox as well seeing as they're both based on Mozilla. What versions are you testing with?
Maybe try loosening up Firefox's security settings.
Does this HAVE to be browser based?
Have you considered Flash?

[Lurch]

Do it in Flash and you will not have to worry about differences in Browsers.

p.s. Mozilla/Firefox is not an OS, it's a web browser. Windows, OS X, Linux, Solaris, etc are Operating Systems.

[igBand]

I hadn't even considered Flash. Pretty damn easy to use Actionscript to randomly move the image.
My bad on the OS reference...what I meant to say is that the OS and special environment were are using is restricting us to using Mozilla. We are implementing an interactive touchscreen directory on a TV that would serve much better purposes a wall for watching football that hanging in the lobby of a school of education. needless to say, it's been a fun project.

Thanks again for the thoughts.

[backpack]

Do it in Flash and you will not have to worry about differences in Browsers.

Flash is evil. I hate it with every ounce of my being.

(Well, not flash used for stuff like this, flash used for making documents that are difficult to read.)

Sorry for the random venting.

[Lurch]

Flash is evil. I hate it with every ounce of my being.

(Well, not flash used for stuff like this, flash used for making documents that are difficult to read.)

Sorry for the random venting.

You are really going to hate this then. http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/08/sifr

[backpack]

You are really going to hate this then. http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2004/08/sifr

Yea, I hate it because it's yet another example of someone trying to make the web fit into a print model of content layout. If it absolutely must look like a print version, just make it into a fucking PDF.

I love this comment: "I don’t expect a lot of people are toggling between text zoom settings dynamically for every page they visit." I'm one of those people, because I use tabs and the new tab won't reflect the text size I want until I apply it, or I may not have increased the text size beforehand because the current page is readable, etc.

That site also looks like crap because it has a central fixed-width column. Idiots.

Ugh.

[igBand]

Yea, I hate it because it's yet another example of someone trying to make the web fit into a print model of content layout.

Couldn't agree more here. Some things were meant to just stay in the print model.

One of my biggest pet peeves that I encournter during web development: "It looks good, but when I print the page out, it gets all messed up."

C'mon...are you kidding me????