Images in IE 8 vs. IE 7 (was Re: Important Website News)

[Lots-A-Watts]

ADMIN NOTE: This thread was moved here from the Andre Norton Forum thead Important Website News. The site needing help is http://andre-norton-books.com/.




I have come across one problem, and I hope that someone here can post the fix.
I use Mozilla as a brouser and the images open just fine. The problem is with Microsoft Explorer (go figure). The images tend to open much larger than the window in the brouser. With Explorer 7 there was a way to tell the brouser to open the image so that you see the entire image and then you could zoom if you wanted. It appears to me that with Explorer 8 this option is gone, for I can not find it. Does anybody know how to set this in Explorer 8.

[Michael]

My browsers tell me your page is trying to load a Microsoft Office 2007 component when I try to look at the cover art for Key To The Keplian. Can you tell me what that component is?

When I look at the image in Internet Explorer 8, IE 7, and Google Chrome it seems fine to me. I'm using Windows Vista on 2 computers to look at it.

[Michael]

Looks like Jay (Lots-A-Watts) rebuilt his site.

[Lots-A-Watts]

Yep - rebuilt the whole site and I'm redoing all the images so that you can actually see them. Whereas the old images are small and get very blurry if you enlarge them,


As far as I know the component is a Microsoft Front Page page, that is what I used to create my site. Explorer 7 never asked about it. But the first time I opened my site with Explorer 8 it asked once but has not done so again.

As far as the Images go - No I guess there wasn't a problem with "Key of the Keplain" image since I have not gotten that far with my upgrades yet.

Try opening one of the Images on the "All Cats are Gray" page and you will see that it is very large and you can only see some of it. Explorer 7 had an option to make all images fit the page when you opened them. Then you could zoom if you wanted. But Explorer 8 does not seem to have this image.

And yes I know - if I make the file size smaller the image will open smaller - but as I said I do not have this problem with Mozilla (which is just so much better than microsoft crapolla) and I want the images to be almost full-size so that they are not blurry like most of the old ones, plus I'm letting people download them from me and do as they want with them.

[Michael]

IE 8 has a zoom function under "View" on its menu that let's me adjust the screen size. I don't know if you can affect that directly through FrontPage, as I doubt FrontPage is fully compatible with IE 8.

Maybe you'll have to compromise a bit on the image size. Or you could load them into a floating window that lacks navigation.

[Lots-A-Watts]

Nope - can not affect the zoom - but I did go back and set all new images to open in a new window, this is the best fix I can do to make the site user friendly with Explorer, and now in Mozilla it opens in a new tab. I like that. So thank you, I had not thought of formatting the images like that.

Thanks - Jay