ie6 won't display *some* images. AOL browser works fine.

[Stephen F Felicetti]

I have had difficulty with IE6 (Windows XP SP2) not displaying some images
on certain web sites.

As an example, www.yahoo.com's main logo at the top, center of the page does
not load but gives a "red x." Selecting "properties" on the image reveals
the .gif file name and the URL for the .gif. AOL's browser has no problem.

I have tried every solution offered by Microsoft, newsgroups and other
sources; I am getting ready to reinstall Windows XP but would rather not.

Again, my AOL browser works fine. Any help most appreciated.

( I use Zone Alarm - not pro version - and Symantec Antivirus. )

 

[Gregg Hill]

Stephen,

Click on View > Encoding > Western European (Windows) and see if the
pictures show up. If they do, you may have to keep doing that step. It is a
conflict with a certain HTML tag that causes it and MS has no permanent fix
of which I am aware.

To see if the page you are viewing has that tag, right-click the page, click
View Source, then look near the top of the page for a line such as <META
HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">. It is
the "charset=iso-8859-1" that causes the problem.

Gregg Hill

 

[Stephen F Felicetti]

Gregg,

Thanks for the tip. This was a "fix" that I had previously tried. Yahoo's
main page is UTF-8 according to the HTML. Also, other browsers like Firefox
have the same problem. Again, AOL (which I was planning to get rid of)
displays everything correctly. My MSN software (which I've uninstalled )
had the same problem.

Is this a SP2-related issue?

Thanks again.

 

[Gregg Hill]

Stephen,

I have dozens of stations running XP Pro SP2 and they do not exhibit the
symptom you have, so it is not just an SP2 issue.

Gregg Hill