Sound Politics: IE7 Rendering Problem

July 10, 2006

IE7 Rendering Problem

I've received numerous complaints today similar to this one:

I'm having trouble viewing the main SoundPolitics page in the latest beta of IE 7--once the 'sound events' renders in the right column, everything in the left column is blanked out until the right column
ends. [Yes, this is undoubtably a regression bug in the beta, since IE 6 displays it just fine--although it took a while for the Sound Events section to render...]

One well-placed Microsoftie tells me that this showed up in early beta versions but is fixed in Beta 3. Anybody else having problems with a different browser? Anybody notice if our HTML tags are broken? Feel free to discuss in comments.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at July 10, 2006 07:37 PM | Email This

Comments

1. I use Avant browser and no problem here.

Posted by: TrueSoldier on July 10, 2006 08:26 PM

2. I have the latest version of Firefox and am not having a problem

Posted by: Mike H on July 10, 2006 08:44 PM

3. Yes I have been seeing this on and off for several mos. just ignored it. My screen breaks at 'Buy this book' and then puts remainder of Right column at end of comments. I use IE6. I always go from SP to Orbusmax or others so I miss not having list at R side

Posted by: ken on July 10, 2006 09:02 PM

4. Yes I have been seeing this on and off for several mos. just ignored it. My screen breaks at 'Buy this book' and then puts remainder of Right column at end of comments. I use IE6. I always go from SP to Orbusmax or others so I miss not having list at R side

Posted by: ken on July 10, 2006 09:04 PM

5. Stefan, I emailed you a while back about page loading difficulties. Pages from www.usefulwork.com would load OK, but pages from the main site would timeout. This would happen at random times.

I solved it for myself (apparently because it is no longer occurring) by adding SoundPolitics.com's IP address to my Hosts file (augments DNS lookup).

I don't care for spyware, so I don't subject myself to MS Internet Exploder ;'}

Posted by: alphabet soup on July 10, 2006 09:15 PM

6. I have the problem. But I also use 2 browsers and Firefox works fine.

Posted by: shane on July 10, 2006 09:38 PM

7. Looks fine in Safari, Camino, and Opera. As usual, it is the product of the Redmond racketeers that does not measure up.

Posted by: Legast on July 10, 2006 09:45 PM

8. I'm a firefox guy. 3 words that make me nervous, Internet Explorer beta

Posted by: Jimbo on July 10, 2006 09:48 PM

9. Just installed IE7 Beta 3 over the weekend (to try to address a different issue) and this problem comes and goes. Never had the issue with IE6.

Been using Firefox instead and all is well.

Posted by: SouthernRoots on July 10, 2006 10:29 PM

10. Get a real browser, Firefox. Or get a real computer, a Mac. That will solve your problem.

Posted by: Jeff B. on July 11, 2006 12:59 AM

11. Microsoft Windows Vista secret:

Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a visit. As we were talking I mentioned having recently installed Windows Vista Beat on my PC and that I am very happy with this operating system. I also showed him the Windows Vista CD, and to my surprise he threw it into my micro-wave oven and turned on the oven. Instantly I got very upset, because the CD had become precious to me, but he said: 'Do not worry, it is unharmed.'

After a few minutes he took the CD out, gave it to me and said: 'Take a close look at it.' To my surprise the CD was quite cold to hold and it seemed to be heavier than before. At first I could not see anything, but then on the inner edge of the central hole I saw an inscription; an inscription finer than anything I have ever seen before. The inscription shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth:

4F6E65204F5320746F2072756C65207468656D20616C6C2C204F6E65204F5320746
F2066696E64207468656D2CDA4F6E65204F5320746F206272696E67207468656D20
616C6C20616E6420696E20746865206461726B6E6573732062696E64207468656D

'I cannot understand the fiery letters,' I said.

'No,' he said 'but I can. The letters are Hex, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Microsoft, which I shall not utter here. But in common English this is what it says:

One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them,
One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

Posted by: JCM on July 11, 2006 07:27 AM

12. Just like Sutherroots, I too have IE7 Beta 3 installed. The issue is still ongoing for me.

Just an observation, nothing more.

Posted by: Balkstar on July 11, 2006 08:05 AM

13. I have a problem opening extended entries in Safari. Before now, I could open extended entries by clicking on the time. That does not work anymore. Can anyone offer some help? Thank you!!!

Posted by: Luigi Giovanni on July 11, 2006 08:12 AM

14. Luigi,
Click on the permalink, or use Firefox.

Posted by: Jeff B. on July 11, 2006 09:42 AM

15. I've seen this problem since I started using the IE7 beta 3

Posted by: H Moul on July 11, 2006 09:42 AM

16. I'm using IE7 Beta 3. It doesn't blank out the screen, but it does push things down off the page in a very funny way. It's as if the columns in one table are splitting the columns in another. I haven't opened the HTML to see if I can find the precise problem but this kind of rendering problem is usually because an HTML tag isn't closed properly. (Like a missing or something.)

Posted by: Jeremy on July 11, 2006 10:19 AM

17. IE7 beta3 with javascript disabled render this page http://soundpolitics.com/ correctly. So there's a bug in your site and not in IE7

Posted by: dave on July 11, 2006 11:53 AM

18. No Dave, it's actually a bug in how IE renders the page. IE has never been compliant with the CSS standard. The bug is even more apparent with 3 column CSS layouts. I have to code two different sections in my Cascading Style Sheet, one for IE and one for Mozilla based browsers.

M$ said that they would be making IE7 more compliant with the CSS standard, but it looks like they managed to screw it up again....

Posted by: Robert on July 11, 2006 01:29 PM

19. an idea put an ad for firefox on the main page for ie users too see

Posted by: sarah on July 18, 2006 05:56 AM