Java Applet

[jscheuer1]

This looks like a good solution (tested in Opera, IE, Google Chrome, Safari Win, Firefox):

You can actually make this an external script, save in a plain text editor as appdelay.js:

(function(){
 if (window.opera) {
  var applet = document.getElementById('app').innerHTML;
  document.getElementById('app').innerHTML = '';
 }
 else
  var applet = document.getElementById('app').removeChild(document.getElementById('theapp'));
 var doApplet = function(){
  if (window.opera)
    setTimeout(function(){document.getElementById('app').innerHTML = applet;}, 0);
  else
    setTimeout(function(){document.getElementById('app').appendChild(applet);}, 0);
 };
 if (window.addEventListener)
  window.addEventListener('load', doApplet, false);
 else if (window.attachEvent)
  window.attachEvent('onload', doApplet);
})();

Next, surround your applet code, and anything else associated with it whose appearance you want to be delayed with these two div elements (the id's are important), and follow that with the script call, ex:

<div id="app"><div id="theapp"><APPLET NAME='DigiChat' CODEBASE='http://67.19.116.210/DigiChat/DigiClasses/'
CODE='com.diginet.digichat.client.DigiChatApplet'
HEIGHT=85 WIDTH=210 ALIGN='MIDDLE'
ARCHIVE=Client_5_1_0_7.jar MAYSCRIPT>
<PARAM NAME=cabbase value=Client_5_1_0_7.cab>
<PARAM NAME=siteID VALUE=253220019>

<param name="room" value="ThE ChAtPiT">
<PARAM NAME=MenuItem1 VALUE=Zubee! Online>
<PARAM NAME=MenuLocation1 VALUE=http://www.zubee.com>
<PARAM NAME=KickUserHTML VALUE='http://www.chatpit.com/chatrooms.html'>
<PARAM NAME=helpURL VALUE='http://www.zubee.com/'>
<param name="background" value="396B9C">
<param name="textcolor" value="FFFFFF">DigiChat free teen chat rooms require a Java Compatible web browser to view our free teen chat rooms.&nbsp; World Chat Teen Chat Teen Talk
 Afghanistan
 Albania
 Algeria
 Andorr . . . 
 . . . New Zealand 
Message Boards
&nbsp;
</applet>
<!-- *** END APPLET CODE *** -->

<font color="#FFFFFF"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size=-3><b>Teen chatters under the age of 18 are advised to get parental permission before entering our teen chat.</b></font></font></font>
</div>
</div><script src="appdelay.js" type="text/javascript"></script></td>

Make sure that the appdelay.js file is in the same folder as the page.

BTW, as far as I know, all of this stuff:

 Afghanistan
 Albania
 Algeria
 Andorr . . . 
 . . . New Zealand 
Message Boards
 

Is just text to be displayed in the event that the browser cannot render the applet. Is all that really necessary, or does it also have some other purpose that I'm unaware of?

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[Rick777]

http://www.chatpit.com/teenchat/
http://www.chatpit.com/index.htm
Thanks guys, I have added the code to both pages.
I hope I got it right.
Rick

[jscheuer1]

I would like to clarify. We're doing all of this in the first place in order to delay the appearance of the chat applet until after the page loads, right? If I've got the concept wrong, then just what is it? Anyways, if this is the idea, if during any particular load of either of these pages the page takes longer than usual to load, this will mean that it will take longer than usual for the applet to show up, that's part and parcel of what we've done.

Also your pages are inefficiently coded and invalid (scary word, it just means that they don't precisely follow coding standards, instead relying upon error correction and quirks in browsers). I just thought you should know that, but it doesn't really impact much what we are doing with this particular thing.

The only serious problems in that regard (really the only serious problems at all) I see are that you removed one of the closing </div> tags on both pages. On http://www.chatpit.com/teenchat/ that would be here:

 . . . lor_text = "CCCCCC";
google_color_url = "999999";
//-->

</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
  src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

</div></div><script src="appdelay.js" type="text/javascript"></script></td>

On http://www.chatpit.com/index.htm it would be here:

 . . . h Africa
Tanzania 
Tunisia 
Zimbabwe 
Australia 
Fiji 
New Zealand 
Message Boards
</applet><!-- *** END APPLET CODE *** -->
</div></div><script src="appdelay.js" type="text/javascript"></script><font color="#FFFFFF"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size=-3><b>Teen chatters under the age of 18 are advised to get parental permission before entering our teen chat.</b></font></font></font></td>
                          </tr>
                        </table>

Most browsers will error correct for that, but in IE it is quite possible that the browser will hang, unable to complete the loading of the page. This in fact happens on the http://www.chatpit.com/teenchat/ page. So put both of those back in.

Now, (also on that page) it's a bit risky to inclucde the Google ad scripts in the area that is removed and reinserted, but it appears to work out OK. And I would think that on the other page you might want to include:

<font color="#FFFFFF"><font face="Comic Sans MS"><font size=-3><b>Teen chatters under the age of 18 are advised to get parental permission before entering our teen chat.</b></font></font></font>

in the section that is being delayed, but that's just a judgement call.

Either way, you may want to set the height of that table:

                        <table border width="210" height="125" bgcolor="#396B9C" >
                          <tr> 
                            <td><center>
<!-- *** START APPLET CODE *** --><center><div id="app"><div id="theapp"><APPLET NAME='DigiChat' CODEBASE='http://67.19.116.210/DigiChat/DigiClasses/'
CODE='com.diginet.d

to 125 as shown, so that it will already be near to its intended size once the app does arrive. Again, just a judgement call.

[Rick777]

Thank you again.
I have very little knowledge of html. Some of the pages started with Navigator Gold, and Communicator. </div>

I added that back in as I thought it was extra at first, as the page worked.
I took your suggestion for the table.

I was worried about the google code where it was to, but so far no complaints from them. The solution I had for that was a table for the ad code and the applet made on NVU, but that moved over the ad code to where I wanted it when the applet loaded. I figured google would frown on that. I still have my fingers crossed with this one. The page no longer hangs waiting for the applet to load. We are very happy. I am not the best person to improve our pages. Always looking for solutions, but we do not have much right now to improve our pages.
This is a great site. You guys have both been very helpful.
Rick

[jscheuer1]

It's actually a bit funny what happens with the Google ad code. It must be that the Google scripts create their little ad element that they populate remotely anyway. Then our script takes away the element and puts it back. It also takes away the Google scripts and puts them back, but since scripts added after page load don't run, it harms nothing.

On the two </div> tags, it's just a matter of we opened to div's:

<div id="app"><div id="theapp"><APPLET NAM . . .

in front of the applet, so we must close them both afterward.

[Rick777]

Thanks you for the help, it helps me to undersand some more about codes for pages.
This looks to be best pace for coding help.
Rick