IE issues

What's the site URL, and are they using the latest version of IE?

Most of their problems will probably be solved if they update to the latest version of IE 7. I know my site looks really goofy in IE 5 for Mac.

audiogeek wrote:
Most of their problems will probably be solved if they update to the latest version of IE 7. I know my site looks really goofy in IE 5 for Mac.

Their problems are solved by NOT USING MSIE. Any version.

Tell 'm to download [Safari|http://www.apple.com/safari> or [Firefox|http://www.getfirefox.com>.

I completely agree! Unfortunately, getting older less computer savvy people to change programs is worse than pulling teeth... 🙂 But give it a shot by asking them to switch and emailing them the link to download them. IE7 is really confusing to me compared to Safari.

Telling people not to use IE, while convenient, isn't going to solve your issues. That's pretty obvious.

Check out this thread to see exactly what's going on with IE and iWeb compatibility:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1320821&tstart=0

Here's a thread that provides a workaround by turning off some features when IE is detected:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6166913

Here is a web page that uses the fix. Use Internet Explorer to open and compare the following two sites:
http://www.lititzsummershowcase.org/Home.html
and
http://www.lititzsummershowcase.org/HomeNormal.html

The "HomeNormal" site shows how the page should look. This is output from iWeb. However, IE falls to its knees trying to display it. If you open the task manager and watch the memory usage as you scroll that page up and down, you will find that IE is using over 1 GB or memory to display that page! Firefox and Safari have no problem with this page; IE turns into a CPU hog and memory pig.

Since that post, I took out the IE workaround and implemented balord's Prototype 1.6.0 suggestion as noted above. It is a significant improvement but still exhibits major slowness on IE. IE was still using 1 GB of RAM to display my webpage when scrolling!

So, in addition to this change, I converted some shadowed boxes to singular .png images. This reduces the amount of Javascript processing required by IE. Now, IE is using "only" 400 MB of RAM to display the page when scrolling. IE now scrolls better but I still consider the performance poor. It jumps from section to section when scrolling.

This is a lot of "workaround pain" to make iWeb pages more usable (but still less than ideal).

And, on top of all that, my pages are now broken when viewed with Firefox. For example, if you look at this page:
http://www.lititzsummershowcase.org/College_Coaches.html
you will find that some box shadows are missing (e.g. on top yellow box) on Firefox but appear just fine on IE and Safari. This new problem is not related to the Prototype 1.6.0 modification.

Hi I am new to this forum stuff, but I am looking for a solution to this IE 'crashing' problem. Mac are not interested in the problem saying it is down to Microsoft to fix the problem with IE (no hope there). Anyway I have found that if you use a HTML-Optimizer, like Web Site Maestro it seems to fix the problem. It will load in IE, although it is not as smooth as it could be, but it loads and has not crashed on my works PC.
You can down load Web site Maestro from http://www.tonbrand.nl/download_mac.htm I hope this fixes this problem.

I am really disappointed that Mac does not seem to be fixing this problem, surely if they sell a web design program it should work on all browsers especially IE, as 80% of web user are using IE on a PC