[bksvol-discuss] Re: Site Works Better with IE7
- From: "EVAN REESE" <mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:23:05 -0400
Yes, you can get it from the Microsoft site. Don't recall the link, but my
Windows Updates wouldn't show it. I had to go to the site and look for it.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:57 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Site Works Better with IE7
I didn't even know that i e8 was out.
Do you get it from the microsoft site? After Evan's problems, I'm not sure I
want it.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: Larry Lumpkin
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 9:46 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Site Works Better with IE7
it seems to work ok with JAWS and IE 8.
----- Original Message -----
From: EVAN REESE
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 9:29 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Site Works Better with IE7
Hey Guys, just wanted to mention that some of you may recall I was having
some mysterious trouble with the site not long ago after installing Internet
Explorer version 8. The site stopped remembering me, even though the Remember
Me check box was checked. Instead of 81 links, the home page had only 28.
Instead of 86 on the Volunteer home page, it had only 33. I also discovered
that I could not use the search function. I would type in a title or author,
and a page would load from one of the links just below the search box such as
Donate or Periodicals. Something is wrong with the focus in IE8 and Window Eyes
7.01. I'll have to ask GW Micro about that. Well, the site did start
remembering me again. I have no idea why; but it never did come up with the
correct number of links in IE8.
Anyway, I rolled back to IE7 just now and all problems are solved. The
pages have the number of links they used to have and I can now search again.
Perhaps it has something to do with some setting or other in IE8. There are
quite a few more of them than in 7, including such things as private filtering
and smart screen filtering, which I have no idea of their function or purpose.
There are probably scads of others that I am not aware of, perhaps some of them
effect the way Bookshare pages are presented. I tried displaying both secure
and nonsecure content, and just the secure content, but it didn't seem to make
any difference.
Interestingly, however, Bookshare is the only site that I am aware of
having any trouble with. Certainly Amazon works perfectly. I am able to search
and buy things from there with no trouble using IE8.
So I guess I'll stick with IE7 until I get a compelling reason to change.
Evan
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