IE9 Is the Only Browser That Won't Display My Site Right? Whyyyy?

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    I thought I had almost finished developing a new nonprofit's website. But it seems the home page (and only the home page?) doesn't display any of the top bar links or the organization name....only in IE9. And it's all....in text!

    The homepage is ***.org. I couldn't seem to get the digitalpoint attach file dialog to work, so I uploaded two screenshots of the problem to my servers (in case you don't have IE9, which, for your sake, I hope is the case).

    http://***.org/VistaScreenShot.jpg
    http://***.org/Error_Browsershots.jpg

    Any ideas why this would render right in every browser but IE9?

    This isn't actually my first post on digital point. Years ago, I used to come here a lot. But username/password issues apparently were irresolvable :(
     
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    jjames, Jun 24, 2011 IP
  2. drhowarddrfine

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    Because IE9 is incompetent, inept and years behind all other browsers in modern standards and practices. No one should use IE.

    You are using both cufon and canvas. I've never used either yet but there is no such element as 'cufon'. I can understand modern browsers (anything but IE) being able to handle it but why IE9 is mishandling canvas, I don't know but I'm not at all surprised.

    Sorry I can't help.
     
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    Don't be so quick to blame IE. I've never had problems with it, to be honest it will be poor understanding of HTML and CSS.

    Why are so many people asking for answers without even a single link to the problem or any code!? Screenshots don't really help.
     
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    IE is the root of all problems. The bane of my existence. Easily a 50% cost bump to all my clients due to time/effort to get any modern code to work in it. An embarrassment to Microsoft. No one should use IE.
     
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    That may be so for IE6 and IE7, but surely IE8/9 is much better?
     
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    As you know, with html4.01/css2.1, yes, but little else. See my first link below for current topics.
     
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    Thank you SO MUCH for the great answer! I don't know why I didn't think, "Hey, there are some Javascript files in my header that I don't know the function of. Maybe they're causing the problem?" Obviously this site is a template; I don't even know what cufon and canvas are. But I do know that when I deleted the scripts, the page still looks fine. Am I somehow setting myself up for crisis by deleting these javascript files? Thanks again drhowarddrfine!

    BRUm, I did post the link for the page in question: ***.org (the home page, index.php). And I expected that users could click "view source," just like drhowarddrfine did.
     
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