RE: FN-FORUM: IE Confusion

date posted 6th October 2006 10:38

Tony,

I think I have found the answer to your problems:

I have been able to replicate what I think is a very similar (if not
identical) effect on my PC. I downloaded IE7 last night, to see if I could
get the same effect; this was without success. It was not until I remembered
that IE7 introduces controls over the style sheet used by a website; I know
this sounds a little weird, but it is the same effect as switching the CSS
style sheets used by CSSZengarden, but from within the browser, and not the
website. IE6 has some controls, but these have been accentuated in IE7.

If you have a look at Tools > Internet Options > Accessibility, there are
three options in the Formatting boxout. They are: "Ignore colours specified
on web pages", "Ignore font styles specified on web pages", and "Ignore font
sizes specified on web pages". Switching all of these on, on my PC seems to
produce an almost identical effect to the screen shot you posted; I would
check to see if these have been switched on, on your PC. If they are, turn
all three off, and hopefully it will restore what you should be seeing. If
this is the fix, then quite why they were switched on, I do not know; I did
a clean upgrade over IE6, and it may be that if you did yours over a
slightly different version of IE6, then Windows might have had reason to
switch these on - who knows? (By different versions, I mean updates, SP2,
etc to a basic install of IE...)

Hope this helps - I'd be interested to see what results you get..my
apologies if this does not help!

Alex

-----Original Message-----
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Crockford
Sent: 06 October 2006 10:25
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Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: IE Confusion


julian wrote:

> Hey guess what! I'm using XP SP2 :o) (the plot thickens)

not really.

either:

a) you have a corrupted install of IE7

b) you did something weird

c) you're messing about.

do any other sites have the same problems?

what else did you do?

have you re-installed IE7 - rebooted? and are we talking about IE7 from
here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx
Internet Explorer 7: Home

or somewhere else?



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