I just installed the Beta version of Internet Explorer 9 and my VSD designed sites have text problems. I've check several and it seems the text boxes are extending past their areas, similar to what you see when with mobil devices. I know there aren't many users of IE9 but it won't be long.

Anyone know the problem here? I have lots of sites and cannot change them all. This makes me very nervous.

Bill

Hi Bill,
Are you using web-standard fonts on these sites? I haven't tried IE9 yet (will wait 'til the bugs get discovered/worked out), I hope this isn't going to be yet another "works fine in every browser except IE9..." situation!
If you would post a link to one of the problem pages, maybe someone else with IE9 can have a look and try to figure out what's up.

I don't think the Coffeecup staff will start making solutions to fix problems for a beta version of IE9. We'll probably have to wait until IE9 is officially released. If there are problems after that, however, I guess CC will work on fixing them.

My website is www.smart-travelers.com. The text on most pages bleeds outside the assigned areas and into advertisement and photos. I have 4 other sites and the text on those does the same no matter what font I use.

Inger, I understand IE9 is a "beta" version but you and I both know it won't be long before Microsoft releases IE9 for general use and folks start migrating to it in large numbers. They are fixing bugs, but it appears this text issue is related to VSD. Same thing happens on mobile devices. I have multiple client sites and I cannot afford to wait until IE9 is in general release to find a fix. I would hope, and expect, CC to be proactive and testing VSD created sites with any upcoming IE releases. Over 55% of my traffic comes from IE and it would kill my websites if the text was unreadable in IE9. If CC decides to wait and not be proactive, then it will have a seriously impact on their product. Who wants to create a website that won't be usable with the largest browser in the world....?

Bill

paintbrush,

By the way, I checked your site and IE9 also impacts your text boxes. It bleeds some text into your background. I realize we can each shrink our text boxes, but that would be an incredible pain when you have multiple sites with hundreds of pages. It also defeats the purpose of WYSIWYG in VSD.

BC

IE 9 will be something we will look into but we don't like to waste any time on beta browsers. We could spend all kinds of time fixing it one way and then they make a change and we have to do it another.

It will be interesting though to see the adoption rate of IE9 given how many people still cling to IE 6 and 7.

Bill, have you checked the text size and zoom level in IE9, that they are set to medium and 100%?

Inger, I checked and the zoom level is 100%. Don't see a text size in IE9. Either way, I went with the standard install which is what 90% of everyone else will do.

Scott, thanks for you note. IE accounts for 54.03% of my traffic. That is broken down into 72.2% IE8, 16.32% IE7 and 10.59% IE6. I am already getting 1% from IE9. The rest could not be determined. I suspect this is a pretty good representation for all websites. I suspect most folks with IE8 will convert and anyone who buys a new unit will also get it once in general release. I think is would be wise for CC to get ahead of this before it becomes a major issue.

Thanks,
Bill

For us, FireFox and Safari represent the majority of our traffic with IE accounting for a monitory. I think these counts are always going to be subjective based on the service you maybe offering.

When IE 9 is officially released, I am sure we will have a solution. Right now we just are not going to spend too much time worrying about a beta browser whose specs are in a constant state of flux.

Our stats vary based on audience also. But I wanted to add that I've had three other companies give warnings about not downloading IE9 Beta and recommending to wait as the Beta would break their software. (No, I'm not going to name the companies - all small - and it would not be fair to name them)

TomH