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.