Websites not displaying properly

Hi all,
Can someone please tell me why some websites don't display properly?
Specifically, at some sites, the pictures don't download, but instead I get
little square placeholder frames with a red x on them. I get this at
Kohls.com and also Creativelabs.com. But other websites load fine. It only
happens rarely, but it's a real pain when I encounter this. Especially
since I'd like to see what I want to buy from Kohls! I am using Vista with
IE 8.0.
Thanks,
Jim

IE 8 has problems displaying objects on older sites. It down right crashes
for me most times and is terribly slow. I don't use it unless I have to (MS
Windows Updates). I use Firefox instead...

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"Jim Ludwig" <> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
> Can someone please tell me why some websites don't display properly?
> Specifically, at some sites, the pictures don't download, but instead I
> get little square placeholder frames with a red x on them. I get this at
> Kohls.com and also Creativelabs.com. But other websites load fine. It
> only happens rarely, but it's a real pain when I encounter this.
> Especially since I'd like to see what I want to buy from Kohls! I am
> using Vista with IE 8.0.
> Thanks,
> Jim

The sites you visited are not upto date w/IE8, you need to enable
Tools-->Compatibiltuy settings for individual sites or just select VIEW ALL
SITES in COMPATIBILITY.
This I tell you, but myself never turn it on.

I don't car eif somethign is slightly corrupt because the world is slowly
upgrading to be aligned with IE8, and please don't tell it crashes.

IE8 is the best browser in my experience, crazy fast and never crashes.
Whoever the other person answering you, needs to LEARN how to change
settings & use thigns properly

You refuse to learn a superior product that IE8 is.

You didn't turn on Compatibilty View and so obsolete sites which were
unaware of IE8 were slowing you down, as of crashing, that's your
tuning/settings problem

How come I've never crashed since IE6? I like IE8 and the very things I was
about to hate it for, e.g. new Find Text command interface, ar enow my
beloved.
You simply need to learn things before criticizing. Whcn you change cars,
don't blame the new car for too much power. Adapt.

You should learn not to assume before critisizing. I do have cmpatibility
View turned on. It still crashes. The settings were the same as IE 7 that
did not crash. It OK, I don't really use it for anything other that Windows
Updates and a few other things that absolutley hate security...

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"JEWboy" <> wrote in message
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> You refuse to learn a superior product that IE8 is.
>
> You didn't turn on Compatibilty View and so obsolete sites which were
> unaware of IE8 were slowing you down, as of crashing, that's your
> tuning/settings problem
>
> How come I've never crashed since IE6? I like IE8 and the very things I
> was about to hate it for, e.g. new Find Text command interface, ar enow my
> beloved.
> You simply need to learn things before criticizing. Whcn you change cars,
> don't blame the new car for too much power. Adapt.

I was unaware of Compatibility View, so I turned it on, but that still
didn't work. I find that my problem typically have my typically have my
trouble on pages that display a list of items with thumbnail images. For
instance, if I go to Kohls.com, the homepage looks fine. Tben I click on
"men's clothing" and that page looks fine. Then I click on "brands for men"
and that page looks all right. But when I click on the "Dockers" link, the
resulting page comes up with all the thumbnail images in placeholder frames
with the red x. I have even tried to enable compatibility view on that
specific page and I can see it try to reload the page, but the images still
don't display. Any more things I might try?
Thanks,
Jim

"JEWboy" <> wrote in message
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> You refuse to learn a superior product that IE8 is.
>
> You didn't turn on Compatibilty View and so obsolete sites which were
> unaware of IE8 were slowing you down, as of crashing, that's your
> tuning/settings problem
>
> How come I've never crashed since IE6? I like IE8 and the very things I
> was about to hate it for, e.g. new Find Text command interface, ar enow my
> beloved.
> You simply need to learn things before criticizing. Whcn you change cars,
> don't blame the new car for too much power. Adapt.

I have used IE8 as well as Firefox on that page and all displays properly. I
do know that you need javascript enabled to view some items on that page.
Check to see if you have Javascript enabled and all IE8 Updates.

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"Jim Ludwig" <> wrote in message
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>I was unaware of Compatibility View, so I turned it on, but that still
>didn't work. I find that my problem typically have my typically have my
>trouble on pages that display a list of items with thumbnail images. For
>instance, if I go to Kohls.com, the homepage looks fine. Tben I click on
>"men's clothing" and that page looks fine. Then I click on "brands for
>men" and that page looks all right. But when I click on the "Dockers"
>link, the resulting page comes up with all the thumbnail images in
>placeholder frames with the red x. I have even tried to enable
>compatibility view on that specific page and I can see it try to reload the
>page, but the images still don't display. Any more things I might try?
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
> "JEWboy" <> wrote in message
> news:u8x0K%...
>> You refuse to learn a superior product that IE8 is.
>>
>> You didn't turn on Compatibilty View and so obsolete sites which were
>> unaware of IE8 were slowing you down, as of crashing, that's your
>> tuning/settings problem
>>
>> How come I've never crashed since IE6? I like IE8 and the very things I
>> was about to hate it for, e.g. new Find Text command interface, ar enow
>> my beloved.
>> You simply need to learn things before criticizing. Whcn you change
>> cars, don't blame the new car for too much power. Adapt.
>

Mine is not crashing, it's faster than IE7. i also gointo "Add-ons", hunt
down every possible pest INCLUDING "addons which run w/o permission", and
disable all. Turn off tabbed browsing, I never understood what's so hot
about tabbed browsing, just another useless whistle & bell

I like to turn things off, including Java. The one thing I always leave on
is Adobe Macromedia/FlashPlayer, else a bunh of sites with videos/multimedia
stop working and even cause delay despite expect speed incease, actually the
opposite - looks like IE is puzzled why player not loaded, etc, etc.

General philosophy is to disable things you can live without.

But if you're crashing, sorry, don't see why from New York, too far fro you!

i am afaraid you need to go thru all the Billion setting sin IE8, but I
swear my IE8 is running eprfectly.

I have much criticism for Vista, but IE8 is outside of my scope of anger
heheh.... At least one application (IE) works right.
Also I found a great many sites started to look "eye-candy", I am very
puzzled by this. Is world changing, is it a Web design trend or has IE8
coupled with Vista MADE them look so cute?
I have these bluish bars runnoing atom of many Technical forums, toolbar &
commands list, I dont rememebr seeing in IE7 coupled with WinXP.

I suspect many sites now autodetect Vista and IE8 and load with a look
different from more "spartan", simple WinXP & IE7 style.
I only saw this "eye-candy" with IE default settings which I quickly replace
with mine, e.g.:
I OVERRIDE sites font sizes & colors, sit ecolor style in egeneral ( I set
to follow Winodws whcih are in turn set here to all BLACK backgrounds,
silver fonts, etc DARK).

Jave & SUnMicrosystems stays disabled and sites still OK except when neeed
to enter interactive forms.

I also know for a fact an HP laptop support chat with their rep faiuled
until I turned Compatibility view on.

HOWEVER if you wonder I turned off COmpatibility after talking to HP
customer service, why? Because I like to declare true IE8 to site manager,
as most sites do detect traffic, IP's and what kind of browser visitors were
using, and if we all stick with IE7, they won't bother to update their side
either. Also Compatibility view is another piece of code running in memory
taking processor resources, I like to turn things off, who cares if a few
sites look a bit garbled, I cna tolerate that temporarily, I only mentioned
Compatibility view as a "possible" solution, but if not working, go thru a
myriad of other settings.

You can spend a good hou rplaying with IE settings, so many....

A quick way to turn on Compatibility Mode in IE 8 is to click on the
icon to the right of the address bar that looks like a broken piece of
paper. If you want to automatically turn on Compatibility View when you
visit certain websites, go to "Tools" and then click "Compatibility View
Settings" on the drop down menu. In the window that opens, the text
field will be populated by the web address of the site you're currently
viewing. Type in the address of the site you want to be permanently
viewed with Compatibility View and click "Add" to include it in the list
of sites that do so.

Randem,

If you are experiencing frequent crashes in IE 8, try this helpful
guide to diagnosing that problem -
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/pc_ie_intro

I hope this information helps!

- Jake

MSFT Internet Explorer Outreach Team


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