For some reason websites I have recently programmed and updated photo's are not being read by older internet explorer versions (8, 9, not sure about 10, 11 works just fine). Any help would be great. My clients are not pleased people cannot see their websites! Not a good way to keep customers.

Hi Dave,

Bottom line here is that EI 8 and 9 are dead browsers and no longer supported by Microsoft and are unsafe to use because there is no more security updates for them. Not only that these older browsers do not support css3. I would advise you to put up a warning message if the website detects an older browser that says to update their browser to the latest version or something to that effect.

My clients complain about the same thing but it is a reality they have to live with.

If they're just standard file types – .JPG or .PNG, I don't get why they wouldn't show up.
Are you using new HTML5 elements for them? Like <figure> or <picture>?
Do the images have a width and height specified? ...Not "width: 100%;"
Are these websites fluid, responsive, or static?
Could you post a link so we could check it out?

Could also try adding this to the HEAD ...



Works for some things, but not all things.