Error in status bar and missing text while scrolling!?

You’re absolutely right – however he’s in Texas and I’m in New York.

*sigh*

I’m starting to think it’s hopeless, and the only way to fix this is with a “vanilla” theme (or at least one he tests out ahead of time to ensure this doesn’t happen) and make no modifications to it.

I’ve checked with both my parents and another friend, and have two of you here telling me you don’t see the problem either… that makes 5 computers NOT having the issue.

I don’t know where else to go with it… so I thank you all for your help (And I mean that from the bottom of my heart, sinceerely!) and I guess we’ll see if I still HAVE a client tomorrow…

Ouch. Yeah, that’s a bummer. LONG way away. Which is part of the problem with online business – but then, it’s equally part of the solution….

Honest…. I wouldn’t kid you about this (obviously because I’ve been there and done that….) – the site looks and works just fine in IE on both my desktop and my laptop (which btw is sp2 as opposed to sp1 on the desktop). I would at this point have to think it’s something in their corp firewall setup, their network settings etc.

Problematic – the client (unless he’s also the sysadmin) isn’t going to know what it is, and may simply choose to not believe you.

You could get lucky and he IS the sysadmin. Or if you start out by saying it seems to be something in his corporate firewall setup and could you please discuss the settings with his sysadmin, he might decide to be reasonable.

Good luck. Let us know how it goes, okay?

Thanks vkaryl – We left off late last evening with attempting to just take an overnight on it and see what he decides to do…

Of course I have all sorts of scenarios running through my head, and few of them turn out well for both parties involved. I’m the one who convinced him to switch to WP – and now I can’t make it work (as he sees it on his computers, etc.)

I really appreciate all the help – That’s why I come to the forums. I try to give help where I can myself, just because I do love the support network here.

I’m just hoping for the best at this point. I’ll let him know that there are 6 computers that are showing things FINE on IE – and that the only conclusion we could come up with is firewall settings, etc. I’m crossing my fingers… and I’ll let you know the outcome.

Thanks again for everything

Okay – Update:
We’re going to be playing with the idea of new themes on the test site. Hopefully we’ll be able to find one that works in IE for everything.

It’s the only thing I can think of – that the theme isn’t gelling with his computer’s settings. He told me that another person has confirmed it on their computer too.

Is there something in the cable lines in NY that’s different than those in TX or what?!? ??

Thanks again everyone for your help… I really appreciate it.

ladydelaluna, I’m sure you’ve thought of this already, but I’ll say it anyway: sometimes an IE-only style sheet is the little hit of crack IE needs to get the party going ??

Or maybe just use this line: I’m sorry, this just isn’t working anymore…but it’s not you, it’s IE!

SMILE ??

Thanks niziol – if I new how to make two stylesheets, one for good browsers and one for IE – I’d try that. I have no idea how to get IE to read one and other browsers to read the other… any advice or help on that would be SO TREMENDOUSLY WELCOMED!

And I’m trying to smile… it’s not easy when your livelihood is being threatened though… ??

You insert in the header.php file this bit of stuff:

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/iestyle.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<![endif]-->

Then you set up a separate stylesheet named iestyle.css which uses all the stuff from the style.css file that works in IE and you change the stuff that doesn’t work so it makes IE happy. And then you load them both up in the theme folder, and the header.php with the little commented piece of whinky js, and you’re good to go. Mostly.

What Madame vkaryl posted will do the style sheet for all versions IE less than or equivalent to IE6

<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory');?>/ie.css">
<![endif]-->

Is exactly what I have in my header.php (thanks to vkaryl for the lte IE 6, didn’t know about that!). Then just make a second style sheet for IE, only things that you need to change need to be listed in the IE sheet.

Good luck,
Michael.

WOW!!!

I’m going to have to try this… thank you!!

ladydelaluna (La Luna is a fantastic album by the even more fantastic Sarah Brightman!), I’m just wondering how everything worked out for you in this situation? I hope it was a good end ??

Cheers,
Michael.

Thanks Michael – we wound up having to go with a completely different theme… there were lots of things wrong with what he wanted versus what the theme was allowing us to do, and it was sort of an emergency to get it all fixed.

We wound up using Mooshu’s sweetened up version of Root’s Vesuvius.

Still had a few minor issues, but after explaining to the client that you can NOT put a 200px wide image in a 150px wide side bar… well, you get the idea. ??

Thanks again to everyone for their support and help! ??