MS do it again:-IE8 screws up PGPSW menus

M8TJT

Has anyone else upgraded? to IE8? The menus, Home, GPS Central etc. do not render correctly on either of my machines. The text is sort of cut in half, with the bottom half missing, and it seems that the fields are only about half the height that they were.
No doubt MaFt will wave his magic wand (again) Wink

PaulB2005 · Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2009 11:14 pm Post subject:

Yeah same here.

Can you try posting something more than 19 lines long and see if the text box starts screwing about?

Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah

Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah

Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah
Hit enter after this line and this box jumps about if you continue typing... If you try it in IE8 you'll see what i mean.
It's doing it now......

aj2052 · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 12:40 am Post subject:

Updated yesterday, it only appears to affect the drop down menus on the top headers, all the forum postings seem ok
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aj2052 · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 12:44 am Post subject:

Posted then tried to refresh page and noticed the new compatability button for older browsers ajdacent to address block clicked this and now shows full letters. try it
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aj2052 · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 12:48 am Post subject:

Looks like Microsoft have built in a do it your self patch button for compatability
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JockTamsonsBairn · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 6:59 am Post subject:

If you look at the download on this page, a list of sites that render better in "Compatibility View", you'll find that Microsoft.com is listed! Laughing

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Darren · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 7:57 am Post subject:

They're turning into a laughing stock and I'm amazed so many stick with them or at least with their joke of a browser.

They ignore so many agreed web standards now that it just gets silly. Why should web authors have to re-write perfectly acceptable and correctly formatted code just to comply with IE?

We amended our Newsletter code recently to use the CSS standard for improved compatibility, all well and good, much smaller file sizes, works well, loads fast, except if you use Outlook 97 as many do including businesses that can't justify the upgrade costs.

MS in their infinite wisdom chose to use Word 97's HTML render engine for Outlook to display HTML emails, and this lacks any support for standards such as CSS that have been in place for well over a decade!

Google Mail is just as bad, it doesn't render CSS and a lot of other basic code, it won't even correctly display its own emails, now that is just farcical.
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PaulB2005 · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 7:58 am Post subject:

Also seems to fix the text box problem.....

I was sure i'd tried this...

M8TJT · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 8:25 am Post subject:

MaFt · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 10:33 am Post subject:

MS are a joke when it comes to web browsers!! the fact that they added a 'compatibility mode' button just proves that their code is that bad that it cannot render correct code properly..! why on earth did they release ie8? ie7 too for that matter!

i THINK that we can add some code to the site so that ie8 automatically renders it using ie7 rendering engine but then users won't see just how bad IE8 is! get yourself a decent, web-standards compliant browser such as firefox, opera or safari - all available for mac and windows.

this isn't microsoft-bashing just for the sake of it, this is IE bashing just because it chuffin' well deserves it!!

MaFt

richard345 · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 1:14 pm Post subject:

Uninstalled IE8 as soon as it screwed everything up on my daughter's machine and many others that I have heard of. FireFox works fine with Pocket GPS World and I see no advantage Laughing

in even considering IE any more.

MS did announce a few weeks ago that they were going to Push the install via Microsoft Update and even gave Network & Systems Administrators specific instructions on how to stop it being deployed in the business environment.

Google Chrome, Safari and FireFox are moving up the percentages in users and this MS fiasco will certainly give those browsers a further boost.

MS - hang your heads in shame --- Oh you couldn't care less about your users, could you????

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MaFt · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 1:42 pm Post subject:

7andy · Regular Visitor Joined: Jul 02, 2005 Posts: 74

A quick note on emails - use of HTML is not supported, and is deprecated.

From RFC 822

"1.2. COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK

Messages consist of lines of text. No special provisions
are made for encoding drawings, facsimile, speech, or structured
text. No significant consideration has been given to questions
of data compression or to transmission and storage efficiency,
and the standard tends to be free with the number of bits con-
sumed. For example, field names are specified as free text,
rather than special terse codes"

MaFt · Posted: Mon May 11, 2009 1:21 pm Post subject:

aj2052 · Posted: Tue May 12, 2009 12:51 am Post subject:

I have 1 desktop and 2 Lappies, for some reason only 2 of 3 automaticaly updated to ie8 via MS updates all geniune oem Vistas, for the life of me I cannot see any reason for updating apart from the new compatibilty button which i didnt need under ie7 anyway, unless anybody knows any better?.
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