IE vs Firefox

**Hugh Jago** · 26 September 2008, 03:35 AM

When Xara 4 arrived I made a test site using it. Everything looked, and worked fine until I viewed it in IE. The Home page is a single piece of colored letter with a .png with transparancy and then center tiled. The IE doesn't load all the graphics and hangs. I reported the problem some time ago and was told that it would be included in a patch.
My questions are :
Has any one had the same problem? Does any one kn ow if the new patch has solved the problem? If not does any one have a work round.

To see the problem please view the front page of www.managemoves.com in Mozilla and in IE (I run IE6)

Many thanks

Hugh

**Egg Bramhill** · 26 September 2008, 04:47 AM

hi hugh, in ie 7 I get an offset of the disc/spiral which isn't there in firefox,

**Hugh Jago** · 26 September 2008, 05:10 AM

Me too. I'm not sure if Xara has coded either degraded XML/HTML or IE isn't as advanced in the use of XMl/HTML.
Do you have any ideas as to what I can do to resolve this, other than rewriting in CCS?
IE seems to have a load problem. It seems to get hung up on a load and never gets to the tiling. The same problem seems to occur in the site. Watch the IE load bar. Mine never completes.
Thanks
Hugh

**steve.ledger** · 26 September 2008, 05:18 AM

No problem loading the site here Hugh in IE7 7.0.6001/FF3 3.0.1/Opera 9.6/Safari 3.2/Google Chrome 0.2.1499

The offset tiling is present in IE7 but no other.
IE7 loads your other pages fully here (1.5 mb DSL connection)

**WolfMoonHP** · 26 September 2008, 11:32 AM

I suspect the problem comes with an out-of-date version of IE. I fully explored your site (VERY attractive, by the way) with IE-7.0.6001.78000.

**Jimi King** · 26 September 2008, 02:10 PM

Yep I get the offset problem in Firefox's IE tab (which equates to an older version of IE).

My stats suggest that between 60 and 75% of IE users are using v7.0, so not the end of the world I guess.

**Hugh Jago** · 26 September 2008, 02:50 PM

Many thanks for the feed back from all. I'll try to change some code and see if I can get a universal solution. Whatever I may say it would appear that with 80% of the world happy to use IE, I'm stuck with the lowest common denominator.
I was interested to see the comment that Chrome was included a Post. Is Chrome fully XML/HTML and CSS integrated, or resisting some of the more new and interesting features like IE?
Thanks
Hugh

**Jimi King** · 26 September 2008, 03:24 PM

Actually it's a lot less than that now. Firefox is creeping up, and with other browsers the overall IE share is down to between 60 and 70% now (and falling it would seem).

**ss-kalm** · 26 September 2008, 03:53 PM

Excellent site Hugo. Thanks for sharing your site with us.
The red disc on the opening page with the gold text is amazing.

**Hugh Jago** · 26 September 2008, 05:02 PM

Never easier. I think this was a standard 'Alien Skin' applied in Xara and exported as a JPG. Compressed at about 51% to try and get as decent a load time as possible. The text again was via XARA, an applied Alien Skin, grouped and then exported as a transparent .png or .gif.
Then the whole thing was a test run in Xara to try to see what kind of site I could create. The whole thing took me some 6 hours to complete, but that was due to the need to experiment.
The text surround bugged me for a while until I re read the instructions ...duh RTMS.
Hugh