This problem occurs on my Vista/IE8 machine, but NOT on a Windows7/IE8 virtual machine. It seems to be fixed by running IE8 in 'compatability mode'.. but your average user won't know to do that. can someone else test it?

What happens is that under IE8 (on my Vista box) the page doesn't always load correctly - sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Hitting Ctrl-F5 repeatedly demonstrates it. Sometimes the logo at the top of http://demo.roopletheme.com/newsflash is missing. Sometimes the menu bar is missing. Sometimes I see 6 images showing different colour schemes at the top of the page; sometimes only one of them loads.

I don't know enough to tell if it's an IE8 bug, or something that can be worked around. I haven't noticed the problem on any other website, but then I don't routinely use IE.

CommentFileSizeAuthor
#5 IE_prob_screenshots.zip753.01 KBkarlre1
Support from Acquia helps fund testing for Drupal Acquia logo

Comments

ctsrutland’s picture

To answer my own question again, this seems to be fixed if you put:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />

somewhere near the top of page.tpl.php

karlre1’s picture

The suggested fix in #1 only works for the start page.

all other pages appear completely torn apart.
The prob not only shows in vista but also in xp.
page refresh shows no effect.

any suggestions?
many thanx!

karlre1’s picture

Please close the case, thanx!
The prob was on the IE side.
cha

Tezla’s picture

I didn't notice any problems with the theme in IE8 (Windows7-64).

I did notice if I click the Toolbar's Compatibility icon, it then behaves like IE7, but everything still loads correctly.

karlre1’s picture

FileSize
753.01 KB

Hello

The suggested code meta http-equiv ...
does NOT change the display problems in IE which by the way aren't limited to IE8 but extend to IE 6+7

With or without the above code in place
- suckerfish menus are replaced with bullets on the start page of the site
- after logon the appearance of the site ist completely distorted and unusable. (blocks and content are displayed in an arbitrary order)

With the code in place
- a new problem with Firefox is caused in that it makes the suckerfish menu disappear behind blocks

I added some screenshots to show the differences between Firefox and IE.
As far I can say the display in Opera causes no probs.

Thanx for any suggestions to solve this!
karlre1

karlre1’s picture

The problem lies in an IE bug.

solution:

Go to yoursite/admin/settings/performance
--> Set the 'optimize CSS files' option to 'ON'

reason: IE can't handle no more than around 30 style sheets in a roll, which breaks the site design.
tribute to: http://davidherron.com/content/drupal-layout-mysteriously-broken-interne...

truyenle’s picture

Thank Karlre1 for #6,

It helps to solve my issue also.

Truyenle

Kisugi Ai’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.