Websites not displaying properly

J

Jim Ludwig

Hi all,
Can someone please tell me why some websites don't display properly?
Specifically, at some sites, the pictures don't download, but instead I get
little square placeholder frames with a red x on them. I get this at
Kohls.com and also Creativelabs.com. But other websites load fine. It only
happens rarely, but it's a real pain when I encounter this. Especially
since I'd like to see what I want to buy from Kohls! I am using Vista with
IE 8.0.
Thanks,
Jim
 
J

JEWboy

The sites you visited are not upto date w/IE8, you need to enable
Tools-->Compatibiltuy settings for individual sites or just select VIEW ALL
SITES in COMPATIBILITY.
This I tell you, but myself never turn it on.

I don't car eif somethign is slightly corrupt because the world is slowly
upgrading to be aligned with IE8, and please don't tell it crashes.

IE8 is the best browser in my experience, crazy fast and never crashes.
Whoever the other person answering you, needs to LEARN how to change
settings & use thigns properly
 
J

JEWboy

You refuse to learn a superior product that IE8 is.

You didn't turn on Compatibilty View and so obsolete sites which were
unaware of IE8 were slowing you down, as of crashing, that's your
tuning/settings problem

How come I've never crashed since IE6? I like IE8 and the very things I was
about to hate it for, e.g. new Find Text command interface, ar enow my
beloved.
You simply need to learn things before criticizing. Whcn you change cars,
don't blame the new car for too much power. Adapt.
 
R

Randem

You should learn not to assume before critisizing. I do have cmpatibility
View turned on. It still crashes. The settings were the same as IE 7 that
did not crash. It OK, I don't really use it for anything other that Windows
Updates and a few other things that absolutley hate security...

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J

Jim Ludwig

I was unaware of Compatibility View, so I turned it on, but that still
didn't work. I find that my problem typically have my typically have my
trouble on pages that display a list of items with thumbnail images. For
instance, if I go to Kohls.com, the homepage looks fine. Tben I click on
"men's clothing" and that page looks fine. Then I click on "brands for men"
and that page looks all right. But when I click on the "Dockers" link, the
resulting page comes up with all the thumbnail images in placeholder frames
with the red x. I have even tried to enable compatibility view on that
specific page and I can see it try to reload the page, but the images still
don't display. Any more things I might try?
Thanks,
Jim
 
J

JEWboy

Mine is not crashing, it's faster than IE7. i also gointo "Add-ons", hunt
down every possible pest INCLUDING "addons which run w/o permission", and
disable all. Turn off tabbed browsing, I never understood what's so hot
about tabbed browsing, just another useless whistle & bell

I like to turn things off, including Java. The one thing I always leave on
is Adobe Macromedia/FlashPlayer, else a bunh of sites with videos/multimedia
stop working and even cause delay despite expect speed incease, actually the
opposite - looks like IE is puzzled why player not loaded, etc, etc.

General philosophy is to disable things you can live without.

But if you're crashing, sorry, don't see why from New York, too far fro you!
 
J

JEWboy

i am afaraid you need to go thru all the Billion setting sin IE8, but I
swear my IE8 is running eprfectly.

I have much criticism for Vista, but IE8 is outside of my scope of anger
heheh.... At least one application (IE) works right.
Also I found a great many sites started to look "eye-candy", I am very
puzzled by this. Is world changing, is it a Web design trend or has IE8
coupled with Vista MADE them look so cute?
I have these bluish bars runnoing atom of many Technical forums, toolbar &
commands list, I dont rememebr seeing in IE7 coupled with WinXP.

I suspect many sites now autodetect Vista and IE8 and load with a look
different from more "spartan", simple WinXP & IE7 style.
I only saw this "eye-candy" with IE default settings which I quickly replace
with mine, e.g.:
I OVERRIDE sites font sizes & colors, sit ecolor style in egeneral ( I set
to follow Winodws whcih are in turn set here to all BLACK backgrounds,
silver fonts, etc DARK).

Jave & SUnMicrosystems stays disabled and sites still OK except when neeed
to enter interactive forms.

I also know for a fact an HP laptop support chat with their rep faiuled
until I turned Compatibility view on.

HOWEVER if you wonder I turned off COmpatibility after talking to HP
customer service, why? Because I like to declare true IE8 to site manager,
as most sites do detect traffic, IP's and what kind of browser visitors were
using, and if we all stick with IE7, they won't bother to update their side
either. Also Compatibility view is another piece of code running in memory
taking processor resources, I like to turn things off, who cares if a few
sites look a bit garbled, I cna tolerate that temporarily, I only mentioned
Compatibility view as a "possible" solution, but if not working, go thru a
myriad of other settings.

You can spend a good hou rplaying with IE settings, so many....
 
A

alexio

Hi all,
Can someone please tell me why some websites don't display properly?
Specifically, at some sites, the pictures don't download, but instead I get
little square placeholder frames with a red x on them.  I get this at
Kohls.com and also Creativelabs.com.  But other websites load fine.  It only
happens rarely, but it's a real pain when I encounter this.  Especially
since I'd like to see what I want to buy from Kohls!  I am using Vista with
IE 8.0.
Thanks,
Jim
Click to expand...

Hi Jim,

I remember this problem first time installing Vista (long time ago
{:) ) and I remember each time visiting the website seeing how hard
the hard disk was thrashing.

I worked out it had something to do with how Vista was indexing the
webpage and somehow prevented the picture from loading. I turned off
indexing and had no issues since.

Obvioulsy this was a long time ago when Vista was launched and Vista
has much improved since then but see if you have indexing turned on
and if so turn it off {:).

Thanks,
 
L

Lee Waun

JEWboy said:
The sites you visited are not upto date w/IE8, you need to enable
Tools-->Compatibiltuy settings for individual sites or just select VIEW
ALL SITES in COMPATIBILITY.
This I tell you, but myself never turn it on.

I don't car eif somethign is slightly corrupt because the world is slowly
upgrading to be aligned with IE8, and please don't tell it crashes.

IE8 is the best browser in my experience, crazy fast and never crashes.
Whoever the other person answering you, needs to LEARN how to change
settings & use thigns properly
Click to expand...

Learn how to spell.
 

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