Internet Explorer 7

[Keitht Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Keitht]

I have had 7 for a few months. I have found a few sites that do not display properly. Resortime.com and Worldmark owners forum. I had to install firefox to view those sites. I must be something about how they are written.

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If it was only a few sites that no longer displayed properly I wouldn't mind so much. I am finding that probably around 1 in 3 sites don't display properly. The problems aren't consistent across sites either. Examples are text overlaying frames; inability to resize text; sidebars overlaying main body.
My recommendation would be - if you aren't using IE7 yet don't move to it. I am using Firefox more and more these days and will probably dump IE completely once I'm satisfied that all the sites I use on a regular basis work correctly.

[mshatty Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close mshatty]

Could some of you that report the issues with certain websites, list a couple of them? So far, I've been fortunate in that none of the websites I have visited since installing IE7 have had any problems.

I would like to see what you are talking about. Thanks.

[Keitht Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Keitht]

Have a look at www.trekearth.com If I try to use any text size other than medium the format of the pages is awful.

Even on this site, if I try to change text size the page expands off the sides of the screen rather than wrapping the text to a new line.

[mshatty Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close mshatty]

Keith,

This is interesting. I went to the trek link and changed all of the views from medium to the smallest all the way up to the largest. All of the views reacted correctly and the page remained in the window width the same as the medium view.

I even experimented on this page that I am writing this reply on. Again, the fonts changed size but the window width and features remained the same.

I'm not an advanced computer person. I wonder what could cause the differences? Would it be setting on one's personal computer or ISP? This is very interesting to me.

[Keitht Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Keitht]

Keith,

This is interesting. I went to the trek link and changed all of the views from medium to the smallest all the way up to the largest. All of the views reacted correctly and the page remained in the window width the same as the medium view.

I even experimented on this page that I am writing this reply on. Again, the fonts changed size but the window width and features remained the same.

I'm not an advanced computer person. I wonder what could cause the differences? Would it be setting on one's personal computer or ISP? This is very interesting to me.

It won't be an ISP issue. It's probably a setting in IE, but as I didn't make any changes apart from downloading and installing it's more than a little annoying. I had to dig down into the bowels of IE to enable the 'Insert Link' icon to work properly. I'll have to dig deeper and see what I can find. Thanks for checking and providing the feedback.

[The Conch Man Past Goumba President & BigFrank's Cigar Buddy! Find all posts View Profile Close The Conch Man]

I downloaded IE7 "beta" many many months ago when I told everyone here bout it ~~ All I got was criticized for it ~~ Nothin new to me ~~ I was one of the 1st ones to download it per Microsoft who contacts me bout "Beta's" ~~ Well ~~ I'm glad y'all havin fun downloadin IE7 now & talkin bout it ~~ I won't never say anythin bout it from here-on nor will I say anythin on new "Beta's" in the future ~~ Trust me ~~

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

I downloaded IE7 "beta" many many months ago when I told everyone here bout it ~~ All I got was critisized for it ~~ Nothin new to me ~~ I was one of the 1st ones to download it per microsoft who contacts me bout "Beta's" ~~ Well ~~ I'm glad y'all havin fun downloadedin now & talkin bout it ~~ I won't never say anythin bout it from here-on nor will I say anythin on new "Beta's" ~~ Trust me ~~

Hey Trev, I just noticed you took off the Cigar Buddy under your name. What happened, You don't like me anymore,

[mshatty Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close mshatty]

Keith,

I know the original newspaper article mentioned that it was important to disable any antivirus and other security software before installing the download. Perhaps that may have had an impact.

I haven't changed any settings on my computer or IE other than to add the Read Mail button to the toolbar in IE 7.

[The Conch Man Past Goumba President & BigFrank's Cigar Buddy! Find all posts View Profile Close The Conch Man]

Frank ~~ You remember I had problems a couple of months back when Ken tried to fix it but was havin a very very hard time cause I down loaded a new beta program othe than IE7 ~~ It was the new RC1 from microsoft for IE ifin you must know ~~ Well, the problem couldn't be fix so Ken transfered me to a "Test" user ID & it worked ~~ So after more workin to try to correct my user ID "The Conch Man" ~~ it still got many errors & issues ~~ So he transfered The Conch Man user ID to the Test ID & it worked ~~ So to make a long story short ~~ Ya never re-updeated me back to your cigar buddy ~~ So please make the correction as I'm always gonna be your "Cigar Buddy" ~~

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

Frank ~~ You remember I had problems a couple of months back when Ken tried to fix it but was havin a very very hard time cause I down loaded a new beta program othe than IE7 ~~ It was the new RC1 from microsoft for IE ifin you must know ~~ Well, the problem couldn't be fix so Ken transfered me to a "Test" user ID & it worked ~~ So after more workin to try to correct my user ID "The Conch Man" ~~ it still got many errors & issues ~~ So he transfered The Conch Man user ID to the Test ID & it worked ~~ So to make a long story short ~~ Ya never re-updeated me back to your cigar buddy ~~ So please make the correction as I'm always gonna be your "Cigar Buddy" ~~

Ok Goumba, I will put it back in.

[The Conch Man Past Goumba President & BigFrank's Cigar Buddy! Find all posts View Profile Close The Conch Man]

Thanks Frank ~~ You still the man ~~

[somerville Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close somerville]

I installed it today. I will continue to use Firefox as my primary browser.

[mshatty Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close mshatty]

Why you people like Firefox? I don't know anything about it. What does it do that IE 6 or 7 doesn't?

[bigfrank Administrator Find all posts View Profile Close bigfrank]

Why you people like Firefox? I don't know anything about it. What does it do that IE 6 or 7 doesn't?

My son uses it and likes it much better than IE. He likes the tabs the most and the controls on it.

[Thirsty Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Thirsty]

I am trying it out but I would like to move the URL bar below the menu bar and links bar. I have tried but no luck so far.

Thanks,
Mike