why does My website is all jumbled up when viewed in IE 7.0

[Gee]

why does My website is all jumbled up when viewed in IE 7.0, but shows well
in IE 6.O, and also shows well in FF on the same PC but all IE 7.0 shows it
jumbled

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

why does My website is all jumbled up when viewed in IE 7.0, but
shows well in IE 6.O, and also shows well in FF on the same PC but
all IE 7.0 shows it jumbled

I don't know what website you're looking at, but you might try posting in an
IE group for the best results.

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

Run it through a validator to find out all the web's code/design errors:
http://validator.w3.org/

: why does My website is all jumbled up when viewed in IE 7.0, but shows
well
: in IE 6.O, and also shows well in FF on the same PC but all IE 7.0 shows
it
: jumbled

 

[David B.]

Your question has nothing to do with Windows XP, you need to post to a forum
that discusses the web design software your using.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Start here http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/default.aspx and here
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/aa740476.aspx

Those with IE7-specific questions or comments are asked to post to and seek
support in this newsgroup: microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

On the web:
http://www.microsoft.com/communitie...?dg=microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

In your newsreader:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general

 

[Synapse Syndrome]

why does My website is all jumbled up when viewed in IE 7.0, but shows
well
in IE 6.O, and also shows well in FF on the same PC but all IE 7.0 shows
it
jumbled

Link? I could have a look.

ss.

 

[mayayana]

why does My website is all jumbled up when viewed in IE 7.0, but shows
well

in IE 6.O, and also shows well in FF on the same PC but all IE 7.0 shows it
jumbled

IE7 has a great deal of known incompatibility.
The explanation from MS is that they fixed quirks
that people had got used to. (In other words,
they broke your code by fixing their browser.)
Do you use a <DOCTYPE> tag? If you just leave
that out it should render in "quirks mode", which
is supposed to be basically the same as IE6.

Since IE7 has nothing particular to offer, and is
only available to a small subset of Windows versions,
it's really become somewhat of a "boutique browser".
I haven't even tested any pages in IE7. I just leave
out the DOCTYPE tag. People should know better
than to be running IE by now, anyway.

 

[HeyBub]

Since IE7 has nothing particular to offer, and is
only available to a small subset of Windows versions,
it's really become somewhat of a "boutique browser".
I haven't even tested any pages in IE7. I just leave
out the DOCTYPE tag. People should know better
than to be running IE by now, anyway.

Indeed. IE is losing market share. It is down to 80% of the browser market.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070222-8908.html

At a mere 80%, its impact on the public is negligible and web site designers
can ignore whatever pecularities IE might have.

 

[David B.]

I don't know where your getting your info from, but the stats from the 10
websites I manage indicate there are just as many IE7 users as IE6, please
point us to the study you are referencing.
Here are the stats from my most trafficked site;

36.40% MSIE 6.0
34.60% MSIE 7.0
17.40% Safari 1.2
10.00% Firefox 2.0.0
1.60% Netscape 8.1

 

[mayayana]

I think your stats are typical, although the numbers
vary widely depending on country and website. There's
an interesting article here:

http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/01/firefox-made-wo.html

Excerpt:
"XiTi Monitor reports a worldwide browser share of 66.1% for Internet
Explorer and 28% for Firefox (a new high). Opera has a 3.3% share and Safari
blips in at 2%. Also of note is the fact that over 90% of Firefox users are
running Firefox 2, while less than half of IE users have switched from IE6
to IE7."

So worldwide IE7 is about 1/3. Probably less in the US.
Certainly less in Eurpope. But IE7 is still a "boutique
browser". It will only run on XP (SP2?) and Vista. And
since it has "quirks mode", it's questionable how many
people are *really* using IE7 when it comes to rendering.
Your site is only rendered with IE7 changes if you use a
specific DOCTYPE tag.

If you want to install and test for IE7 because you're
designing to accomodate IE7 "standards mode", along
with older IE versions, that's up to you. I don't see any
point. It's bad enough that IE needs a different page
from all other browsers. With the limits on where IE7
will install I put it into the same categoryas Safari and
Konqueror: It's up to them to make it work. I'm not
going to test specifically.