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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
CSS Compatibility Mode Fix for Internet Explorer 8

ie8My recent post about IE8 has launched it’s ugly head.

A client of ours contacted us to let us know after they downloaded the new Internet Explorer 8 there site looked messed up.

Knowing this was going to be a problem, Microsoft created a button called ‘Compatibility View‘ so users could view websites in the older version of their browser.

But this was not a work around for our client.

Instead of fixing (or hacking) all the code on the website I added the following code recommended by Microsoft:

<html>
<head>
<!-- Mimic Internet Explorer 7 -->
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" >
<title>My Web Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Content goes here.</p>
</body>
</html>

It worked!

This is truly a work around - a Microsoft work around. Microsoft knew full well that their new browser couldn’t view perfectly good standard coded websites, so they had to come up with a way to view websites as if you were using their old browser.

What a joke. It’s no wonder why Microsoft is losing market share to Firefox and Apple.

Posted by: Michael Swartz at 6:23 pm

Comments: 6 Comments | Filed under: Web Design, HTML


Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Creating Branded HTML Emails in Outlook

Hello.

We’ve been creating many HTML email newsletters recently, but today we received a question about just sending out branded emails. You know, emails with your logo and stuff.

In Microsoft Outlook, it’s easy.

Outlook Stationary

To brand your own email though will require you to create a HTML file. You can do this in any HTML editor like Dreamweaver. Then import it into Outlook.

Don’t forget to test your email, making sure it looks good in all the popular email programs like Gmail, Yahoo, etc.

Mike Swartz says, “Check it out”.

Posted by: Michael Swartz at 9:28 am

Comments: 2 Comments | Filed under: Computer, HTML


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