Is your site/store ready for IE7?

[Biffy]

Re: Is your site/store ready for IE7?

A Simple Solution

Use this stylesheet header:

	<link href="http://website.com/mm5/css/compliantStylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
	<!--[if IE 6]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://website.com/mm5/css/ie6stylesheet.css"><![endif]-->

This causes IE6 to use it's own stylesheet and compliant browsers to use their own stylesheet. Write the HTML/CSS code for compliant browsers such as Firefox, get it to validate, then copy the stylesheet and revise it for IE 6.

Problem solved permanently.

[bill_1983]

Re: Is your site/store ready for IE7?

if you have a good and clean code, the function is ie7 is fine.

Bill

[immy79]

Just FYI...

Here's a post in the IE Blog that links to some useful tools/resources to help test compatibiltiy with IE7.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/200...ady_3F00_.aspx

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

iMac G5 and DELL (Core 2 Duo) both with 2GB of RAM running on DSL. I will be curious to see if what I am seeing disappears over the next couple of weeks, usually does with most new releases. Page load times are extremely slow though on all machines.

Hmmm, interesting... what sort of machines do you have (CPU speed, RAM, etc)? I've installed it so far on two of my test systems: a G4 Mac mini with 512MB RAM and it rocks, and on Windows end, on a P4 Dual Core 3.2GHz 2GB RAM - also runs plenty fast. These systems are both over a year old so we are not talking about anything extravagant here.

[d_host]

Hmmm, interesting... what sort of machines do you have (CPU speed, RAM, etc)? I've installed it so far on two of my test systems: a G4 Mac mini with 512MB RAM and it rocks, and on Windows end, on a P4 Dual Core 3.2GHz 2GB RAM - also runs plenty fast. These systems are both over a year old so we are not talking about anything extravagant here.

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

Wow, so far I am very disappointed... Firefox 2.0 is extremely slow and clunky on both Mac OS X and Windows.

BTW, Firefox 2.0 is going to be released tomorrow, officially, but it looks like they already posted the files on their FTP server today. If you want to start testing everything with both IE7 and Firefox 2.0, you can do so already. I got Firefox 2 downloaded for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux - will start testing it today

[d_host]

BTW, Firefox 2.0 is going to be released tomorrow, officially, but it looks like they already posted the files on their FTP server today. If you want to start testing everything with both IE7 and Firefox 2.0, you can do so already. I got Firefox 2 downloaded for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux - will start testing it today.

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

That's because IE7 is now 'standards compliant.'

Almost blew Mt. Dew all over my keyboard...

You know the end of the world is coming the day Internet Explorer is truely standards compliant or if Vista/Longhorn is sitting on the store shelf. ;)

[d_host]

I have found a lot of issues with IE7 not displaying simple CSS properly.

That's because IE7 is now 'standards compliant.'

:-)

Sorry, couldn't resist! MS has been claiming that IE7 was going to be following all common standards a lot more than any other browser, but everyone who's ever used it from the early beta days to the final release can tell you that Microsoft, once again, has invented "their own standards" with complete disregard for the rest of the world. Their own MSN site already complains in a few places when you try to access it with Firefox, and on some systems it tells you you are running bootleg copy of Windows and asks you to install a new, legitimate copy, before allowing you access to portions of Windows Update system.

[Dan - Glendale Designs]

I have found a lot of issues with IE7 not displaying simple CSS properly.

[Pamela Hazelton]

Red Flare,

I'm afraid you only get that warning message when you either have misconfigured settings in your store, or mismatched http/https references in the URL vs what's in the actual HTML code. No browser will display this type of message in any properly configured and coded MIVA Merchant store, so tripple-check your settings and code as what you describe is not exactly what everyone else experiences on other web sites. This is definitely not the norm, and it's a helpful indication that you have something not set up quite right in your store. It's not Firefox's fault. They are just trying to point out the problem to you.

Exactly, and when you see that, stop what you're doing and fix it. Nothing like a discrepancy ignored then later find out someone gained access to customer data.

[d_host]

I take it back... they must have changed it this morning (it was there for the past few days). Simply use the Windows Update to download it. It's coming up now as a 'required' update. And yes, installing IE7 will automatically replace IE6 for you.

[d_host]

Just go to http://www.microsoft.com - 60% of their home page is one big link to download it. :-)

[UltimateNourishment]

Does anyone know how one can get a copy of IE7? I thought it wasn't available for public download until Wednesday?

And for those who have installed IE7, is there any steps one should take to avoid any install conflicts? How do you upgrade IE6 to IE7? Does the install just know to overwrite certain files?

(I am always sooooo leary of installing new Microsoft software...)

[Red Flare]

Thanks Remic.
Not exactly sure what to look for. I'l need to talk to my host.