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Andrew Nicholson
Andrew Nicholson
2,474 Points
Posted by Andrew Nicholson
Andrew Nicholson
2,474 Points

Why won't IE display the site properly?

Hi,

I used Browserstack to screenshot all the different formats, and not one single version of IE displayed correctly - from 7 through 11 and on several Windows OS.

Did anyone else come across this?

Thanks

Andrew

3 Answers

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 Points

It's perfectly normal. Internet Explorer is notorious for not being caught up on all the latest HTML5 and CSS standards, particular the further back you go. But it's the same with all the browsers. The further back through the browser the versions you go the less caught up they'll be.

There are various workarounds such as fillers and shims to deal with the shortcomings of browsers but you're generally at the whim of what browsers people use.

caniuse.com is a great website for getting the most to date information on which features are available in which browsers. :-)

Andrew Nicholson
Andrew Nicholson
2,474 Points
Andrew Nicholson
Andrew Nicholson
2,474 Points

Thanks Jonathan, makes sense!

Nathan Brazil
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Nathan Brazil
Courses Plus Student 2,756 Points
Nathan Brazil
Nathan Brazil
Courses Plus Student 2,756 Points

I think the problem is with using the url in the workspaces window, for some reason beyond my knowledge Windows 8.1 I.E.11 on my mac(I use parallels) would not display my website properly(no css or images) when I tried using the url from the workspaces window and browserstck.com was showing that based on this same public url my site was not compatible with any version of I.E. on Windows 7, 8, or 8.1. This seemed unlikely considering how simple the website actually is. I downloaded my workspace to my desktop and opened my index.html file with Windows 8.1 I.E.11 and it worked just fine. I think the issue may be with the url in the workspaces window, try downloading your project folder and testing your website manually.