GONZO Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 On my PC I use Vista and IE9. For the past week or so the HK site home page, or any page, does not display correctly. All other sites I visit or have visited are OK and display correctly. If I use Google Chrome the HK site is OK. I do not wish to change to GC. Any ideas or have HK changed something making IE9 not compatable? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GONZO Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 Update; Just tried my lap top, which I rarely use, and get the same problem. But, only on the HK site. Changing 'compatability mode' has no effect on either machine. All other sites are OK. Software is the same on the laptop as the desk PC. Looks to me as HK have changed something. Any other ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GONZO Posted September 2, 2014 Author Share Posted September 2, 2014 Update 2; Just found a small message hidden in the jumble telling me to update IE. But, IE9 is the highest you can use with Vista. Not likely that I'm going to buy a new OS(or PC/laptop) just to see HK. So, it looks like I will be forced into using GC for HK. Has no one else had this problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete B Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Looks as if they have made some changes - on Firefox the pages default to a larger text setting than before and the 'orders' page has been re-formatted. You could try clearing the IE cache on both machines and see if that helps - it might be trying to load the new format onto an older stored page. Of course, the preferred solution is to kick any version of IE into touch and use a decent browser, such as Firefox... Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomtom39 Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I have also with several sites and have had to swap to Chrome. (Also running Vista) . Same issue with Horizon Hobby using IE. (on my desktop) No problems on Laptop which uses IE 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Whybrow Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Fine on Firefox 31.0, displays a jumble of text and images on IE8. That indicates the site almost certainly meets the HTML 4 or HTML 5 specs as that's what usually breaks IE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete B Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Just tried it on IE9 myself - what a mess - and the HK site is just a jumble of grey boxes over the background image, too... Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eamonn Fahey Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Spent all day faffing around trying to come up with a solution to this problem. It seems that Microsoft are no longer updating Internet Explorer for Vista. Vista can only handle Internet Explorer ver.9 and Microsoft are now on ver.11 which most web sites are changing over to. Unfortunately, Vista has about a year of support left. The only way to view more and more updated web pages will be to change your browser to Firefox or Google Chrome or buy an expensive update to Windows 7 or 8. I have installed Firefox and everything is back to normal for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Hopkin Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Firefox is the way to go....... IE is well, so last century Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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