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Disappearing Images
September 16th, 2005, by Rich.
If you’re using Internet Explorer (IE), you may notice that the images on this site are “disappearing”. Please do not adjust your set. Better-than-normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.
I am trialling a piece of code that should improve the overall look of the site for IE users. This is necessary because IE is now several years old and does not correctly support many of the open standards that underpin the World Wide Web; standards which this site adheres to.
If you’d like to view the site as it should be seen, why not try the free, standards compliant, Firefox browser? It takes less than five minutes to download and install, and I highly recommend it.
Incidentally, the software that I’m testing is called “IE7“, and it’s by a guy called Dean Edwards - it uses Javascript in order to both rewrite the page content and change the browser’s behaviour so that IE appears to function as the standards say it should. It’s called “IE7″ because it provides an “upgrade” from IE6 - it has nothing to do with the forthcoming version 7 of Interenet Explorer, which is in restricted beta testing at the moment.
Dean couldn’t replicate the problem so if anyone does see this happening please leave a comment below.
On my machine, when the images disappear it looks like this.
September 16th, 2005 at 8:09 pm
Saw this post on Technorati…and for kicks I thought I’d check out how this worked in IE (since I use Firefox) and lo and behold, your images aren’t there.
I don’t know how up-to-date my IE is, since I never use it…but I’m on XP with service pack 2…what a weird little thing, eh?
September 20th, 2005 at 1:40 pm
Some of the images are missing .. not all.
missing:
1.Teapot under the right menu.
2.The number that appears top-left of the comments ( although it is not an image)
3.The head icon from the comment posters
WinXP PRO SP2, IE6.0
September 20th, 2005 at 1:41 pm
After i submitted my comment, the image reloaded and then the little hardware on the first paragraph dissapeared as you described …
September 29th, 2005 at 12:42 am
Hey give up on those transparant pngs and everything will be hunky dorey !
October 18th, 2005 at 1:04 pm
I’ve (today) stopped using the script because there was no apparent solution to the vanishing pictures, mainly because Dean (the developer of the library) couldn’t replicate the problem.
February 22nd, 2006 at 9:32 am
If I understand correctly I had a similar problem. Images disappeared from
webpages (some not all). When i erased temporary internet files I could se
all images again, until I reloaded the page.
Found out that Mcafee privacy has some sort of add-filter that removes the
tags from certain images. Uninstalled it and everything was fine again.