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Need help with page loading in IE

by charliemwallace
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Hey guys,
One of my affiliates just informed me that my page is having trouble loading in Internet Explorer. It is fine in Firefox, can anyone help me with this?

Would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Charlie.
#firefox #internet explorer #loading #page
  • Profile picture of the author casius
    Make sure that you use tables instead the divs, because IE really is not happy when you use divs. Also you can check the status of your webiste and what errors it has with those two tools:
    1. webpagetest.org for webiste performance
    2. browsershots.org how the site looks like
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    • Profile picture of the author entrepenerd
      Originally Posted by casius View Post

      Make sure that you use tables instead the divs, because IE really is not happy when you use divs.
      Please do NOT take this advice. IE does not have issues with divs.

      We need to have a link to the site to be able to help.
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      • Profile picture of the author ninal
        Originally Posted by entrepenerd View Post

        Please do NOT take this advice. IE does not have issues with divs.

        We need to have a link to the site to be able to help.
        I totally agree. I would never advise anyone to go with tables. It loads much slower and is generally not a good coding practice.

        You just have to tweak your code to make it work with IE.

        I just saw your site and it's actually using tables for most parts. I looked at your site using IE6, IE7 and IE8. Everything seems to be in order unless I'm missing something. My connection is a bit slow so it's actually still loading for me. What particular problem do you have with IE?
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    • Profile picture of the author BobJutsu
      Originally Posted by casius View Post

      Make sure that you use tables instead the divs, because IE really is not happy when you use divs. Also you can check the status of your webiste and what errors it has with those two tools:
      1. webpagetest.org for webiste performance
      2. browsershots.org how the site looks like
      Crap, crap, crap...Just to make sure nobody listens to this advice let me say it again, it's crap.

      Tables in fact load slower than divs, the reason being that tables are meant to contain tabular data, not to provide structure. Therefore, the browser correctly assumes that the table should not be loaded until all of it's data is downloaded. If you are using it for data, than that is a good thing, if you are trying to use tables for layout, that means that all of your page elements contained within a table must be downloaded before the table will render at all...makes it slow.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mohsin Rasool
    Originally Posted by charliemwallace View Post

    Hey guys,
    One of my affiliates just informed me that my page is having trouble loading in Internet Explorer. It is fine in Firefox, can anyone help me with this?

    Would be greatly appreciated.

    Cheers,
    Charlie.
    Hi Charlie,

    You need to tell us what the page is...
    And also ask your affiliate to take Screenshot of the page..also
    report what IE version he using, on what operating system.

    Regards,
    Mohsin
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  • Profile picture of the author charliemwallace
    Hey guys, sorry for forgetting the link, here it is...

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    Thanks for the help.

    Charlie.
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  • Profile picture of the author charliemwallace
    Hey Ninal,
    The only problem I am having is the sheer time it takes to load, expecially compared to firefox. How would I tweak the code to work better with IE?
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  • Profile picture of the author ninal
    Your site is using tables this is why the loading time is longer than you would expect. The best solution would be to recode the site using divs. That would greatly improve page loading time.
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  • Profile picture of the author charliemwallace
    So I just need to change every time it has <table> to <div>?

    Just double checking!

    Thanks heaps for the help guys, much appreciated!
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  • Profile picture of the author ninal
    I'm afraid it's not that simple. You may need to have someone recode it for you.
    You see the thing with tableless layout is it loads 2-4x faster than table-based layouts since the content is completely separate from the styling/design. You could read this article for more information.

    BTW, your signature link doesn't load properly. You need to remove the '\' after .com
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    • Profile picture of the author DJL
      Originally Posted by ninal View Post

      I'm afraid it's not that simple. You may need to have someone recode it for you.
      You see the thing with tableless layout is it loads 2-4x faster than table-based layouts since the content is completely separate from the styling/design. You could read this article for more information.

      BTW, your signature link doesn't load properly. You need to remove the '\' after .com
      The link to "this article" (hotdesign.com) seems to be invalid. Can you cite another source that addresses the issue of tableless layout?
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