Seeing Different info in IE and Firefox – What the heck?

  • mortgage_master

    (@mortgage_master)


    15 years ago

    When I pull up specific pages on my blog in both IE and Mozilla Firefox, I am seeing everything in Firefox, but Internet Explorer seems to be suppressing some of the pics, which are also links.

    If I go into View Source on the page in question in IE, the paths to the files are in there, but it’s like the browser in unable to display them.

    Has anyone seen this happen before?

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  • Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    would be interesting to see it on your blog.
    link?

    yes, that happens, usually if the page in queston has a lot of validation errors (check with: https://validator.w3.org/)
    or if some divs are layered above others.

    Thread Starter mortgage_master

    (@mortgage_master)

    Hi,

    I went to the site you referenced above, and the response looks Greek to me. If it makes a difference, many of the pages on the site were imported from an .xml file. Should or would this make a difference?

    I can email you the URL if you would like.
    Thanks

    Jonas Grumby

    (@ss_minnow)

    IE also has a security setting that lets you block images from a specific site. Maybe you hit it accidentally.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    It could if the import file wasn’t properly structured or contained bad data. I’m currently betting that you imported content that had previously been pasted into another blog/application from Word. Word’s own formatting can stop your pages from being displayed correctly (if at all) in Internet Explorer.

    Thread Starter mortgage_master

    (@mortgage_master)

    I think that it is something in the page itself, as I have asked other people in other location to pull the page, and they are seeing the same thing that I am.

    To give some more background, I actually created the page, specifically the table that sits inside of the page in MS Front Page 98, which is probably my first mistake, in that it in my experience it tends to parse lines wherever it wants, and causes stuff like this to happen.

    In running the page through validator.w3,org, it came back with 51 errors. To preface this, the table has a subtable, and many rows which get populated from the DB.

    This may account for so many errors. Many of them are along the lines of: “XML Parsing Error: Couldn’t find end of Start Tag a line 327”
    I have seen this before, but never to this extent.

    Anybody have any thoughts as to a good text editor that will be easier to use than any MS products.

    Thanks for all of the input form everyone, especially the validator site, which was invaluable in getting to the bottom of this. At least I have a place to start with this repair.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    Have you tried Windows Live Writer?

    Personally I use TextPad

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