Vista and IE9

[dude9er]

Does anyone here have Vista with IE9 installed? I do not have access to this combination and would like to have you test one page of my site. I would like to IM anyone willing to give it a go.

Thanks!

[imaginekitty]

Does anyone here have Vista with IE9 installed?

I do. Vista 64-bit. What's the difference between IE9 on Vista and IE9 on anything else?

[dude9er]

hi imaginekitty, that is what I am trying to figure out. My clients site has a bug in it and he is running IE9 on Vista and I am not experiencing the bug on my Win7 IE9. I will IM you the site to test if you can. Thanks!!

[imaginekitty]

OK. I'll help you out. They probably have Compatibility View on.

[dude9er]

The thing is, Compatibility mode works and regular mode does not. That's what's messed up. I IM'd you.

[imaginekitty]

Replied. Works as expected on this end. Do they have javascript disabled?

[dude9er]

That's what I am wondering, but it works in compatibility mode. I don't get it.

Thanks for testing it!!

[imaginekitty]

Does compatibility mode turn scripting on if it is off? I'm not sure.

[phinole]

I'm having a similar problem that dude9er had - the client is using Vista Home Premium and sees a layout bug with IE9, but I can't duplicate the problem on IE9 under Windows 7.

In my case, I have a menu in a container with a width of 990px and 6 nav buttons inside the container, laid out inline, each with a width of 165px. All other browsers on Windows 7 render the menu properly, but the client sees what appears to be overflow when he uses IE9 in Vista.

Here's the demo site:
http://ushasoftware.ftetrack.com/

Here's the client's bug in Vista:

http://ushasoftware.ftetrack.com/ima...aLayoutBug.jpg

Thanks for any input you may have.

[logic_earth]

Larger screen shots work better you know...one thing that stands out. The level of Zoom level of IE is not 100% according to the screen shot. (Bottom right corner) Also you get the overflow with Compatibility mode turned on. So evidently, your client has that on and you did not test it.

[markbrown4]

Every new website should have this meta tag, it will prevent IE from going into compatibility mode( which just introduces more problems )

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">

Compatibility mode is evil, if there are problems in standards mode then you should address them and not rely on the bugs in older browsers to make your page display correctly.