Like, I am sure, many of us, certain WebSites we do for free, for friends,
family, our own Clubs etc, and most times, peeps are grateful, but
occasionally - - - - - -!!
I explained in the Mail List for one of my freebie Sites, that there had
been a couple of comments about the odd problem occurring when viewing with
IE 6, which I suspect with being a UK Uni WebSite, would include the
majority of the viewers. So I included a disclaimer on the Welcome page, and
covered it more fully with this Post to their MailList.
I had a phone call yesterday evening saying a couple of the WebSite
Pages and Menus seemed a bit wobbly. The Design is up to date with the latest
standards, but unfortunately this can sometimes mean that viewing problems can
occur when using older versions of Explorer 6. I have just put a box up on the
Welcome page saying that
³The xxxx WebSite runs best on Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer 7. If
you’re still using Internet Explorer 6, you can download the new Explorer 7 by
clicking here²
or in fact here http://tinyurl.com/3wu5dd, which will take you directly to
the Microsoft Explorer 7 WebSite. It¹s a free download, and should lead to
trouble free viewing, or as the marketing types would say - a much richer
more fulfilling browsing experience (!!!)
I wasn’t sure whether to laugh or cry when I received this reply a short
time later.
"unfortuntately some of us can not update for IE7, here at xxxx we are
only allowed to use IE6 (no other browser) and this is also also true of
other multinationals ! It is a bit of pain for these people as they have no
alternative but to surf the xxx WebSite from home.
Unfortunately at the moment I have not been made aware specifically of what
the problems are, although I believe it occurs on a couple of pages where
the HTML text is indented in the bottom panel of the Text Inspector by
-18px/0px/0px, which effectively indents every line other than the first
line of every paragraph. This displays perfectly in every Browser I’ve been
able to check, including IE 5 on the Mac, but as I don’t have access to a PC
Explorer 6, this is more difficult to check.
What exactly is the reported Menu problem I have not yet been told, but I
may well be back to ask for help later. The Site was built in Freeway 4 Pro,
the Menus are built with the FW4 Menu Action, and the IE6 Compatible box HAS
been ticked in the Inspector Pallet Page Option in the Menu Action Master
Page.
A typical Text Page can be found here,
http://www.ouueg.org.uk/et2008report.html
while the drop down Menus feature on nearly every page. Any comments now
would be most welcome, but once I receive a more specific detail on the
problems, I will post again.
Many thanks as always
Neil Carter
Oxford UK
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