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The IE rendering problem

I emailed suport about this but could not find much of an answer. the following was my email, any thoughts on my problem.

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Have you had any problems with the Style Sheet not loading on IE 6.0. It seems to format correctly if refreshed, but on first load the style sheet doesn' t seem to load

This doesn' t seem to happen in Netscape, Mozilla etc

Thank You
~Eric


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Hi Eric,

That' s a problem with IE' s rendering engine, sometimes even graphics won' t load properly with IE. Thank you.

Alice Tseng
ASPPlayground.NET team
http://www.aspplayground.net

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Does anyone else have any ideas?
Thanks in advance

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That' s a problem with IE' s rendering engine, sometimes even graphics won' t load properly with IE. Thank you.


I believe that IE just does not behave correctly all the time. I am seeing the graphics not loading problem sometimes too. If the CSS problem occurs only on your server, I believe you' d better contact your server admin. I never had any problem with CSS on other aspplayground site.
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Humm that is wierd that no one else has had an issue with this... Hosting site insists it is the software, don' t know what is wrong, I gusee only time will tell
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The software has been used worldwide and I got no report about this issue except from you. Do not make the assumption that the software is not working properly just because your host said so.

Do you experience this problem on this support forum, or on any other forums listed on my home page? I am not able to reproduce the problem you mentioned here or on any of the sites there at all, and I am using IE 6 SP1 all the time.

The reason Alice said it was an IE issue was that IE6 does have issues with graphics loading and sometimes linked style sheets. We use exactly the same techinque to generate style sheets from database for IE6 and all other browsers -> if all other browsers are doing fine with our software how can this be a software problem?
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Im not faulting your software, and I apologize if I came accros to be doing so. I think your sorftware is incredible and am very pleased with it' s quality.

I am just confused and trying to find the root of the problem.

Thank you for your response
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Hi Kawter,

Thanks for your message and I am sorry I sounded too harsh in the last message. Please accept my apology too.

Now to the CSS problem: I just went to your site to download your CSS definition and also went to other sites that have no such problem to see if I can find something out. I was still not able to identify the source of the problem.

You can try removing the margin definition from the body element and see if it helps.
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I checked your website with pipeboost.com' s testing method and found that your site is using a compression technology ( See Report)

This might be the cause of the problem, see this page for more info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q313712

Please ask your host about the PIPEBoost version used on your site. For more info, see this page:
http://www.pipeboost.com/supportreg.asp (check out version 1.05.087)

The first 2048 byte of the data contains the CSS style sheet data and may have been dropped by IE if you use an old version of pipeboost.
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WOW< IM ALLMOST GETTING EXCITED ABOUT THIS.......

THANK YOU SO MUCH

(allmost because i hope it works... don' t want to get my hopes up again yet)
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One of my clients had this problem too and after he turned off the compression yesterday, the problem is gone forever.

This has to be a bug in IE, since all other browsers interpret compressed HTML correctly.
< Message edited by samuel -- 2003-03-16 14:24:41 >
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A simple fix for the problem:

Add the following code at the top of forumcss.asp (right below the include):

Response.AddHeader " Compression-Control" ," no-compress"
Response.CacheControl = " Public"
Response.Expires = 320

Bruce Lee
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