Hi, This has been bugging me for hours and hours, and I have not found the solution for this. On IE7 everything works fine until you load a thumbnail for the second time (I think), then every page takes a few minutes to load. On every other browser (including IE8) it works just fine. The problem seems to be in loading the images, but I can't find the solution... All images are loaded with a regular <img />. With or without width and height does not matter (tried both). Most images work correctly (header images, etc..), it's about thumbnail images of this type: <img src="http://domain.ext/upload/images/d73hd83jhd84hew84.jpg" /> It's not about caching either, as I tried to add ?rand=<unixtime> after the extension of the image to disable caching completely. Any ideas / suggestions? Thanks!
To be truly honest, developing for IE8 is good enough, I mean, IE9 will come out someday in the future supporting tons of other things and they'll market the crud out of it for their loyal customers, and I would say if IE7 isn't working, it's not like many people would still be using it in the future. However, help is help; I find it hard to believe (well, not too hard) that IE is having trouble just reloading images. Are you sure there isn't any other thing that may cause slowdown on reload? I'm not all that sure exactly what would be going on in a closed-source browser like IE. You could also have malware on your browser (toolbars? Plugins?) so just in case, do a scan, search for files associated with the weird toolbars, and re-install IE7.
Thanks for your response. I know, but the main audience are employees who still use IE6 because their company doesn't update there IT infrastructure The problem arises on more than one pc, and they are all clean. It's definitely the images, sometimes they won't even load at all... How can some images (not all) completely scramble the page in IE6&7 only?
I think I know, now that I think about it: I don't remember if IE6 can differentiate between XHTML and HTML, but W3C recommends against using slashes/self-closing tags if you are using regular HTML. It's mostly one of the XHTML features and doing such is for the sake of backwards-compatibility, and IE6 could now be one of those "backwards" browsers. Remove the slashes and see if it begins working. I'm sure that IE7 could *possibly* tell. Goodness, I can't imagine myself working in an environment that never updated its technology, not even if it's free, tested and beneficial.
That was the problem, for IE6 and IE7 Thank you so much! Yes it's awful, most corporate IT infrastructure lacks many years behind....