ie7 won't connect to 'net

[Taka Morobi]

hi,

ie7 has been acting strange lately. i use it for previewing web designs in
Dreamweaver on the local computer, which is fine. But when I try to connect
to an internet site, it seems to stall on "connecting" and never gets the
site up.

I tried deleting IE7 from Zone Alarms prog list once; that worked
temporarily. Then same problem came back.
I've also deleted all offline files, cookies, etc.

thanks for any pointers...

Taka

 

[rob^_^]

Hi Taka,
Zone Alarm settings worked once..... maybe it will work again. Did you have
it turned on when you installed IE7?

Why are you using IE7 to 'test' your dreamweaver (v?) site. A
misunderestimation of DTD's is underlying the issue.

Regards.

 

[Taka Morobi]

Why are you using IE7 to 'test' your dreamweaver (v?) site. A
misunderestimation of DTD's is underlying the issue.

Rob, every web designer that uses DW, uses browsers to preview local changes
before uploading. That's a no-brainer. And (unfortunately), because IE is
still the most popular browser (not for long), we all make sure sites appear
decently in IE.

The word "misunderestimation" is not a word in the English language; so if
you could translate for our Anglo Saxon audience, that would be appreciated.

Taka

 

[Kevin Visitor]

First you need to try connecting the site using Mozilla/Firefox browser.
If you can connect with Mozilla/Firefox then you know your machine's
connection is not at fault. This means you don't have to use any third
party products that are likely to be infested with spywares and anything
that goes with it.

Now you need to remove/uninstall in order: IE8 (if installed) then IE7 so
that you are back
to IE6. I am assuming you have updated your system from IE6 then IE7 then
IE8 (if applicable).

Now test your system to see you can still connect to your sites with IE6.
If you can connect then you know the system is fully operational.

Now install IE8 (skip IE7 - because you don't need it) and test again for
connectivity.

Step by step approach is the only way to detect where the problem lies.

hth

 

[rob^_^]

IE7 has its shortcomings (haslayout). You can more easily develop for
standards compliance with IE8 and use the Developer tool to toggle the
Browser mode between IE6, 7 and 8.

Depending upon your DTD, each browser mode will have a different outcome.

You should be targeting HTML 4 transitional and maybe using conditional
comments to use different stylesheets for each IE version.

Maybe, because there is a trick that the other browsers use to prime the
default element style rules.

You should also use IE8 because it has the inbuilt Developer tool to examine
the DOM and to validate your markup and layout. The number of errors in your
markup can determine which rendering mode your browser will adopt. Try the
Tidy HTML extension for FX and compare it to the W3c validators.


Regards.

 

[Hot-text]

As a web designs and you do not have 2 pc one with ie6 and one with ie8
if your webpage do not preview good ie6 it will have the same problem in
ie8

it time to get a new PC if you going to be good a web designs!