Private Messages

[Billyboydes]

Hi, is there a set of settings to fix the message problems in IE?
4 times to get a message away!
regards

[DJ’s Timber]

Which version of IE are you using?

Suggest that you switch to Firefox, Chrome or an different version of IE.

[Scott]

Billy, I'm not having a go at you by saying this, but it absolutely confounds me why people use Internet Explorer, it's a horrendous browser. As DJ has highlighted, there are plenty of other great options

[Treecycle]

Besides the problems with forums, what are the downfalls of Internet Explorer? I use Firefox for this forum due to some of the problems here, but I don't seem to have problems with using IE9 for anything else. Maybe I don't use browsers to their full potential to see the suggested problems.

[enelef]

In all honesty, IE9 is the best browser MS has built, so you should not be having too many problems with it across the interwebz.

But to the cause - each browser translates the scripting code for the rendering of webpages slightly differently. This is not the HTML, but the active scripts that dynamically place elements and refresh data. A well written site/application will attempt to cater to all variables for all browsers - but at the end of the day it is a lot of work to make a web page look and act the same for all browsers and their versions.

The more browsers and versions of those browsers you need to accommodate - the more work is required. Sort of a logarithmic curve.

Simple websites, those with no or limited scripting, are much easy to make compliant than those that are function rich.

There are 'standards' for web browsers and what they should or should not do and how they should or should not translate and render, but no two are the same. Google Chrome is fairly good, Firefox and Opera are fairly good, even Safari is relatively good, but most versions of IE are not. (and worse is that fixes to make the pages render correctly are different for each version of IE, )
TL;dR

Don't use IE, use Chrome or Firefox - they are better.

[malb]

The more browsers and versions of those browsers you need to accommodate - the more work is required. Sort of a logarithmic curve.

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Hate to be a pedantic bustad, but if it was a log curve, it would flatten out and presumably get easier as the number of elements increased.

Tis in fact an exponential curve, ie one that gets steeper, rather than flatter as x increases.

Sorry to pick this, not well at the moment and I become hornery if I can't function. However I did google to check that demenitia wasn't confusing me.

Edit definitely not dementia, I found and fixed the six typos myself.

[enelef]

but if it was a log curve, it would flatten out and presumably get easier as the number of elements increased.

Tis in fact an exponential curve, ie one that gets steeper, rather than flatter as x increases.

Guilty as charged your Honour

In my haste to wax lyrical in techno-babble, I inversed a function of truth. It should have been 'exponentially' - but then in a shout out to honour a forum member i could perhaps have stated 'increased the work to brobdingnagian proportions.'

Thanks for fix up.

Cheers