IE 9 unreadable
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IE 9 unreadable
1st of all, many thanks for all the hard work! Been using and referring to TPFC since many years!
Problem with new site : unreadable in IE 9, all updates, win 7 home 64b
Message : problem, IE is forced to compatibility mode (approximate translation, my system is not in english)
Problem : frames incorrectly displayed, unreadable (no text wrap, frame chrome masks content, etc.)
As a sidenote, please allow me venting a bit :
Had to register to post this : Incredibly bad experience!!!
Had to provide my junk mail address
Had to search the site for a stupid question instead of a simple captcha (foundation date, name of founder, had to register twice, since I always try with a fake email first...)
Very long and frustrating procedure just to let you know that a perfectly functioning and useful website has become unreadable, slow to load, not compatible with tablet, with much more scrolling involved, much more embedded frames when a simple link used to just simply WORK, etc.
Why let it as is when it's not broken, I suppose...
/venting
Problem with new site : unreadable in IE 9, all updates, win 7 home 64b
Message : problem, IE is forced to compatibility mode (approximate translation, my system is not in english)
Problem : frames incorrectly displayed, unreadable (no text wrap, frame chrome masks content, etc.)
As a sidenote, please allow me venting a bit :
Had to register to post this : Incredibly bad experience!!!
Had to provide my junk mail address
Had to search the site for a stupid question instead of a simple captcha (foundation date, name of founder, had to register twice, since I always try with a fake email first...)
Very long and frustrating procedure just to let you know that a perfectly functioning and useful website has become unreadable, slow to load, not compatible with tablet, with much more scrolling involved, much more embedded frames when a simple link used to just simply WORK, etc.
Why let it as is when it's not broken, I suppose...
/venting
Re: IE 9 unreadable
Have you cleared the browser cache and cookies?
As for the registration procedure, see http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 567#p58567 and next posts.
And welcome to the TPFC forum.
As for the registration procedure, see http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 567#p58567 and next posts.
And welcome to the TPFC forum.
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And now you are the proud member of a wonderful community! This should be enough!
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If the problem still exists, attach a screenshot please.
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Thanks for your feedback. As we are a volunteer website, it's been difficult to implement some of the intelligent spam filtering systems some of the big companies have. However, part of what makes this site great is that it's been able to avoid much of the spam that's overwhelmed other volunteer-based sites. The requirement of a real email address and the complexity of the registration process is one of these steps, though it's good to know it might be problematic for legitimate users. It's unlikely we won't be able to do much about the email address requirement -- that's a fairly standard authentication. Accepting fake email addresses as authentication would mean we'd get overwhelmed with spam or require moderators like myself to sift through even more messages to try and determine good from bad.portablefree wrote:Had to register to post this : Incredibly bad experience!!!
Had to provide my junk mail address
Had to search the site for a stupid question instead of a simple captcha (foundation date, name of founder, had to register twice, since I always try with a fake email first...)
/venting
I think the updated look and feel really improves site readability and usability, though it may make it incompatible with some older tools. What tablet are you using?portablefree wrote:Very long and frustrating procedure just to let you know that a perfectly functioning and useful website has become unreadable, slow to load, not compatible with tablet, with much more scrolling involved, much more embedded frames when a simple link used to just simply WORK, etc.
Yes, please. I can't verify your issue on my Win7 IE 9 system.portablefree wrote:Problem with new site : unreadable in IE 9, all updates, win 7 home 64btproli wrote:If the problem still exists, attach a screenshot please.
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Re: IE 9 unreadable
1st of all, sorry for my rant, uncalled for, and profoundly unfair for all people who give their hard work freely. Bad day for sure, really sorry.
Back on topic : yes cache cleared (use CCleaner many times a day)
Have a screenshot, but can't paste it, do i have to use an external host (Img tag)? If yes, do you have a simple one to recommend that works well for this forum, ideally without registration ( )
Edit: nevermind, found http://postimage.org/ seems to work without registration.
As a sidenote, it seems the problem disappears if I'm logged in, going to test further...
Edit : strange, worked once, works no more, gonna retest after clearing everything and re-logging
Many thanks for your welcome dispite my wrong attitude, I might as well use that login to give back a little, at least by commenting on the apps I use regularly!
Edit : try to link screenshot
2nd edit : error message from IE, roughly translated as:
"A problem showing portablefreeware.com has forced IE to refresh the page using compatibilty mode"
http://s14.postimage.org/j03ldbxlt/Screenshot2.png
Back on topic : yes cache cleared (use CCleaner many times a day)
Have a screenshot, but can't paste it, do i have to use an external host (Img tag)? If yes, do you have a simple one to recommend that works well for this forum, ideally without registration ( )
Edit: nevermind, found http://postimage.org/ seems to work without registration.
As a sidenote, it seems the problem disappears if I'm logged in, going to test further...
Edit : strange, worked once, works no more, gonna retest after clearing everything and re-logging
Many thanks for your welcome dispite my wrong attitude, I might as well use that login to give back a little, at least by commenting on the apps I use regularly!
Edit : try to link screenshot
2nd edit : error message from IE, roughly translated as:
"A problem showing portablefreeware.com has forced IE to refresh the page using compatibilty mode"
http://s14.postimage.org/j03ldbxlt/Screenshot2.png
Last edited by portablefree on Tue Dec 18, 2012 2:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: IE 9 unreadable
OK, futher testing, I'm lost... but I swear I'm sober!!!
Closed IE
Ran CCleaner (no exception for this site yet)
Open main page through google search
=> problem is here (as in the screenshot above)
Login on main page
=> problem still there
Go to forum to type this
Open main page in new tab (Ctrl+Clic on the main logo)
=> problem disappears!!!
May I test something else, if useful?
(For my usage, I'll just go through Iron Portable and call it a day!)
Edit 1:
This time, added the site to the exceptions in CCleaner
Go to main page through Favorite (fresh one)
I'm logged-in
=> Problem is here
Open in a new tab (Ctrl+clic on main logo)
=> No problem, site appears A-OK
Edit 2:
Just for fun, compared with Iron: IE9 is scrap!
Go to "All": in IE9, the last sub-categories on the right of the frame are all scrambled, sometimes one letter per line(!), in Iron, nice and smooth...
Closed IE
Ran CCleaner (no exception for this site yet)
Open main page through google search
=> problem is here (as in the screenshot above)
Login on main page
=> problem still there
Go to forum to type this
Open main page in new tab (Ctrl+Clic on the main logo)
=> problem disappears!!!
May I test something else, if useful?
(For my usage, I'll just go through Iron Portable and call it a day!)
Edit 1:
This time, added the site to the exceptions in CCleaner
Go to main page through Favorite (fresh one)
I'm logged-in
=> Problem is here
Open in a new tab (Ctrl+clic on main logo)
=> No problem, site appears A-OK
Edit 2:
Just for fun, compared with Iron: IE9 is scrap!
Go to "All": in IE9, the last sub-categories on the right of the frame are all scrambled, sometimes one letter per line(!), in Iron, nice and smooth...
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We all have gone there, no harm done, carry on...portablefree wrote:1st of all, sorry for my rant, uncalled for, and profoundly unfair for all people who give their hard work freely. Bad day for sure, really sorry.
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I can confirm that IE9 keeps jumping into Compatibility View with those ugly scrollbars (Win 7). Ah well, good thing I hardly touch that browser, even if it is fast at canvas stuff
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I can confirm that the website indeed has these scrollbars if the Compatibility View is on. However, my IE10 doesn't automatically switch to the Compatibility View.
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Re: IE 9 unreadable
tproli / andrewlee: Use this meta tag in the to force IE to use the latest compatible version:
This will essentially turn off IE's crappy compatibility mode.
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<head>
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<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge" />
is it stealth?
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Thanks, that could help. I usually use this:
Atm I cannot test as I does not have IE9 at hand.
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<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">