Slow hover buttons

I am having trouble with Hover classes in Netscape 7.0, the hover buttons load very slowly. They first display as a grey button with the text "Loading class fhpoverx ", after 10-20 seconds the actual button appears. I have tried removing and re-installing the lastest Java for Windows 98. Are there any other settings that would affect this behavior?

 

Well, it's very hard to tell what was going on there.
There are many ways to create hover effects.
Hover effects can be created by JavaScript pre-cached, JavaScript non-precached, Java Applet (not so popular nowadays), Flash, or simply CSS.

From your post, I assume that you were visiting webpages using Java Applets. It is not a problem of the version of Java Applets, but the caching of Java (by Sun Java) is not that fast compared to Microsoft's JVM.

 

> From your post, I assume that you were visiting webpages using Java Applets.

Yes.

> It is not a problem of the version of Java Applets, but the caching of Java (by Sun Java) is not that fast compared to Microsoft's JVM.

Makes sense.