August 16, 2006
IE 7 Display Problem
I've received a number of complaints about problems with displaying the main blog page in Internet Explorer 7.
Today I received an email from Microsoft with a suggested workaround, which I just implemented. I don't have IE 7 installed yet and can't test this. Can those of you who use IE 7 tell me whether or not the page is displaying okay?
(There's a separate and unrelated DNS problem that I'm aware of and will try to make progress on today).
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at August 16, 2006
12:14 PM | Email This
1. Hey Stefan,
IT WORKS!!! Thank all that is good and holy. I was really tired of that annoying gap of nothingness on your front page.
2. Ta Da!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
works fine
3. Thank you Stefan! Now I don't need to maintain an old box at work just to read the blog. :-)
4. Hey! It looks great!
5. The upcoming events seem to have moved way, way down to the bottom of the page. Is that by design?
6. Steve B. -- that could happen if your browser window is relatively narrow. If you expand it horizontally the event list should snap back to the side.
7. It works here. We just need to apply the same fix to the Public blog.
8. It works here. We just need to apply the same fix to the Public blog.
9. With regard to comment #7 by Stefan, I am still finding that even when the window is fully extended horizontally, there seems to be a breakoff following the bar title "sound events," and then a big white space. Items above the bar are where they should be, and only items below the bar are at the bottom of the screen.
10. Looking good once again! Reading SP on my Blackberry was getting old fast. Knew you'd come through for us Beta testers, Stefan.
11. Hurray for tech support. Stefan, you should get on the beta of IE7, I think you'll like the tabs....the RSS functionality is pretty good to.
12. Any hints/links on what the problem and workaround were?
13. Definitely working great from this IE7 user. Thanks, Stefan!
14. Works for me too, Stefan. Thanks! And the DNS problem that was causing me to be unable to post this comment also seems to be fixed!
Now to go get this Firefox thing off my machine...
15. Display on my home computer is fine, so when I get back to the office I will just make sure the screen settings are the same as at home.
16. They were supposed to fix IE not tell you to fix your website. I've been following this bug and reading it is frustrating. I may not go back to IE now that I have been using Firefox.
btw, Stephan you are welcome.
17. thought I was transported to a new world of giant missing commentary. Glad to find out that it was an IE7 glitch. It would be a great addition to some of the extremely liberal bloggers. They just waste space only.
18. Yup, IE7 is one buggy, filthy mess. Why is it everyone else can play by the rules, but Microsoft decides they can just wing it?
19. The IE team has introduced me to Firefox. Now if I could convince the Firefox team to pass NTLM authentication credentials seamlessly I could abandon IE completely even at work.
The IE team doesn't get it. They need to comply to standards and play nice with the rest of the world. Unfortunately their wholesale arrogance is driving even MSFT employees to other products. Since IE PMs, Devs, Testers don't understand what quality means I strongly urge Stephan to flip MSFT the bird and tell them to fix their browser. Testers you are supposed to be THE advocates for our customers.
20. Who uses IE anymore anyways??? Use FireFox! It is much safer (from hacking attemts and virus) than IE.... plus it only takes 5Meg of space where IE takes 36Meg (version 6) not sure how big v7 is...
www.getfirefox.com
21. The best fix for Internet Explorer problems is to change to Firefox. Get the Adblock and No Scripts add-ons and you are set.