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  • #24816
    Chris Coyier
    Keymaster

    Hey guys,

    Thought I’d reach out and see if any of you have any ideas on this. On any of the single "video" pages on this site, like this:

    https://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts … tionality/

    If you view it in IE 8, it just continuously loads seemingly blank content expanding the site horizontally forever. It’s very bizarre. If you click the "compatibility view" button it doesn’t do it, and it works in literally any other browser.

    It has something to do with the comments area, as if I remove that from the template it loads fine.

    The page validates perfectly as well.

    Weirdness :D

    -Chris

    #57319
    apostrophe
    Participant

    I just checked the page in ie8 on http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/ and it looks fine. Could it just be a problem with ie8 on vmware? Does it do the same in ietester?

    #57320
    chazzwick
    Member

    it loaded fine for me for about a second, then did exactly what Chris said. Im on XP here.

    #57356
    Rob MacKay
    Participant

    Its a bug with IE8 atm – loads of people and sites are reporting the same problem with embedded video… there seems to be no solution atm… :(

    #57357
    apostrophe
    Participant

    You could try this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/cc817570.aspx

    Though how they have the gall to say

    Quote:
    These short-term fixes are recommended only for quick, temporary use. Eventually you should modify your Web site so that it sends standards-based code to Windows Internet Explorer 8 and above

    beggars belief!! :lol:

    #57370
    AshtonSanders
    Participant

    Hahahahah….. crap. I really don’t want to start checking IE8 too…

    Yea… It’s a real shame your website isn’t valid…. *sarcasm* :x

    #57410
    Chris Coyier
    Keymaster

    It IS standards-based. Fully-validating, that’s what so darn infuriating.

    I’m going to bust out the meta tag they suggest to just make it emulate IE 7.

    Booooooooo.

    #57416
    friendofpugs
    Member

    Just as I ignore IE6, I ignore IE8. Can’t trust MS to get nuthin’ right…

    #57422
    AshtonSanders
    Participant
    "chriscoyier" wrote:
    It IS standards-based. Fully-validating, that’s what so darn infuriating.

    (I know, sarcasm is the devil on the internet…)

    "chriscoyier" wrote:
    Booooooooo.

    lol

    "friendofpugs" wrote:
    Just as I ignore IE6, I ignore IE8. Can’t trust MS to get nuthin’ right…

    Not that this is the proper place for this discussion, but that’s really not a good idea. In a year when everyone uses IE8 (and today while 25%+ still use IE6) all the products you create will be broken.

    #57430
    friendofpugs
    Member
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    Not that this is the proper place for this discussion, but that’s really not a good idea. In a year when everyone uses IE8 (and today while 25%+ still use IE6) all the products you create will be broken.

    Our site metrics don’t support those figures. IE6 has slowly been trending down at 17% while IE8 is hovering at just below 6%. IE7 represents a whopping 75% of the traffic, so for us, that’s the only IE player we worry about at the moment. (We received over 100K visits from May 11 to April 11.) Besides, IT won’t install IE8 yet for us to test against ‘cuz of our wonky desktop environment. You’d at least like to think that IE8 should render better than IE6…but that’s a long shot. ;)

    #57443
    AshtonSanders
    Participant

    Well that’s better than 25%, but you realize you get 6000 IE6ers and 17000 IE7ers? So 23000 people who see your site in a browser you haven’t checked.

    Sorry for the thread-jack… I’m done

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