A half dozen or so newsletter readers have reported that they cannot
read this newsletter online. I suspect there are more readers with the
same problem. In every case, those who reported the problem were using
Internet Explorer 8. I have a bit of advice for those readers: "Don't
use Internet Explorer 8!"
In fact, Microsoft won't call it a bug
but the company does admit that many sites that work perfectly in
Internet Explorer 7 will not display properly in Internet Explorer 8,
unless you use Microsoft's "workaround." When Microsoft upgraded to
Internet Explorer 8, they broke something that used to work properly in
Internet Explorer 7. The same sites also will display properly in
Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, and other web browsers. If that's not
a bug, I don't know what is.
ZDnet has compiled a list of 2,400
major web sites that cannot be displayed properly in Internet Explorer
8. You can see the list at http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2072
(and that list is growing as more web sites are discovered). Yet, every
one of those sites displays properly in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera,
and even in Internet Explorer 7.
Luckily, Microsoft has produced an easy fix.
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