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#1 2008-07-19 1:22 am
Help with IE
I've had a couple people tell me now that my website doesn't load in IE.
It loads just fine in FireFox 2 and 3 - and I can not test IE.
It validates as xhtml 1.1
http://www.temptingevereptiles.com/
Yes - I know the design sucks. I don't care. Right now it costs more to host it than I can possibly earn selling from it, so now's not the time to critique my lack of design capability. I'll hire a web designer when the time is right.
I just want to know if there really is an IE problem and what in the world would be causing it.
I don't believe in gravity, the Earth just sucks.
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#2 2008-07-19 1:48 am
Re: Help with IE
Whenever I try to load that site in IE, rather than displaying the page, a window pops up asking what I want to do with the file.
For testing, I copied your page content to a page on my site, and the resulting page does display in IE, with one minor error. The boxes in the left navbar don't wrap all of the way around the lists they contain.
How is your index file named? It should be named "index.html".
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#3 2008-07-19 1:54 am
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Re: Help with IE
matt wrote:
Whenever I try to load that site in IE, rather than displaying the page, a window pops up asking what I want to do with the file.
Same here- 'Do I want to save the file, or look for a program to open it?' It comes up as an unknown file type.
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#4 2008-07-19 2:08 am
Re: Help with IE
To fix the slight layout problems, I'd change a few things.
In your code, you've defined the sidebar's height as 100%. I would remove that line and instead set it's min-height to 100%.
Also, I'm not sure about the text-indent on the ul elements, but I would set these the left margin on all ul elements to zero
Code:
ul {
margin-left: 0;
}and I would remove this line:
Code:
text-indent: -2%;
After setting those things, the page should display correctly in IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera.
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#5 2008-07-19 2:49 am
Re: Help with IE
Bat wrote:
matt wrote:
Whenever I try to load that site in IE, rather than displaying the page, a window pops up asking what I want to do with the file.
Same here- 'Do I want to save the file, or look for a program to open it?' It comes up as an unknown file type.
So the mime type being sent is incorrect.
This is how I'm sending the mime-type:
Code:
<?php
header("Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8");
?>Is that incorrect?
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#6 2008-07-19 3:33 am
Re: Help with IE
OK - to fix the IE issue I did the following:
Code:
<?php
$ua=$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'];
// freaking IE
if (strpos($ua,'MSIE') === false)
{
header("Content-Type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8");
}
?>Does it behave better now?
Last edited by resedit (2008-07-19 3:33 am)
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#7 2008-07-19 3:44 am
