Webmaster Forum / Browsers / Internet Explorer / October 2005

Here is an IE bug that I can duplicate by following these steps exactly.
Can you?
I found no simple way to report bugs on the Microsoft website.  Do MS
employees monitor this ng?

Does anyone from the MS galactic empire ever look at this group?
Time and again, I'll visit a website only to find that, when I click an
internal link, the *whole site* becomes unavailable. It will remain this way
for a long time. There is no way that the major sites that I'm ...

We have a PC here (Win2000) with Internet Explorer 6 and recently it has
developed a problem. Everything seems OK with just 1 window open - real
player inserts are OK, adverts appear - all is normal. However, whenever a
link opens in a new window (any type of link), the second ...

this is a pesky problem.  i just got a new computer.  things were
working pretty well for a couple of weeks.  just the other day,
however, a pop-up showed up (i had pop-up blocker on) advertising
"winantivirus pro 2005" and "winantispyware pro 2005".  i closed the

I can't get on the internet. My networks setting are working. I've
checked everything with my ISP and the connection is fine. I can ping
other sites. I've run AV and Anti-Spy software and all is clear. I
have all the latest XP updates. I'm thinking it's a problem with

I've saved some web pages as a single file with the
.mht extension.
When double clicking filename.mht I got an error
msg re couldn't find the application.

I am using IE6 and it has toolbars for Yahoo, Norton Antivirus as well as
the standard IE one.. When I uncheck Norton Toolbar, the Yahoo Toolbar turns
off. and vise-versa. Is there a fix for this or should I just live with it.
Thanks

limiting access to files with asp.net
is there any way i can make a file only accessible to certain users of my
website? my files are to large to copy to a temp directory and they are of
many types, .exe .xsl .xml etc. i want an href to each file but only allow

Recently when viewing any web site and trying to "open" something from that
web page into a new window, the "new window" comes up as "You are not
authorized to view this page"  In addition, when doing a right click on the
object I'm trying to view the "Save Target as" is grayed ...

Is there a way to force landscape printing from an HTML page?

We have javascript that loads images on demand. The script is the usual
form:
var image = new Image()
image.onload = myOnLoad

I have website that has been rendering just fine until about 3 or 4
days ago. All of the sudden, the page now shows "Done, but with errors
on page" in the status bar. Nothing was done to the HTML for this page.
Nothing was changed. Something flakey has crept into IE over the past

Currently I can only view source code for pages that are stored locally
For some reason I cant see the code on pages online
Is there a setting that possibly I have activated by mistake as I really
need to see source code on some sites

I purchased a new computer and went from Windows ME to Windows XP Home.
Internet Explorer was re-installed on purchase and is located in C:\Program
files. My "Favorites" are located in C:\Favorites, but I cannot seem to have
this file associate with Internet Explorer.

On some web-sites, where there is a picture or other graphic to be
displayed, I get an empty square with a small icon in the upper left corner.
I expect I'm missing some type of plug-in.  Any ideas?
Thanks