IE 6 playing not nice with Compendium??

[Zenako]

I have found that I am unable to successfully open the compendium recently. My home machines are still running IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gfe.090206-1239. Is there anything in the new pages (I used to be able to open them from home) that would not play nice with that vintage IE 6?

What happens is I click the link to the Compendium and it pops to a blank black page and just sits there doing nothing. I cannot do anything on the IE Page. All buttons, toggles, pull downs, etc are inert. When I go to task manager, it is listed as running, but there is no noticeable activity going on (at first i thought it must be downloading a but of replacement info). The only way to kill the screen is via Task Manager.

I can open the Compendium from a work based machine running IE 7.

Followup - I just tried clicking on the DDO Compendium Hot link from the Forum listing and it popped right up. The dead end only seems to nail me when clicking on the Radio button on the top of the page from the forum listings.....

more as I see more

[Zippo]

I would either upgrade to a newer version of IE or do as I have and just go Firefox or possibly Opera (both have been much better to me then IE)

[Trillea]

Firefox FTW!

[Borror0]

You are asking them to keep in mind a browser that's outdated by at least 5 generations of real browsers. No one is masochistic enough to do that.

Just get a real browser like Firefox or Chrome. Web developer around the world will love you.

[Silverpoint]

Firefox is the way to go. You can do anything that you can do with IE and more.

If you are set on staying with IE though I would suggest flushing the browser cache. I had that problem with my browser a while ago. I flushed it and it started working just fine.

[FluffyCalico]

"Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 was released on August 27, 2001,"

Those using 8 year old computer stuff should not complain

[Duwis]

I have found that I am unable to successfully open the compendium recently. My home machines are still running IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gfe.090206-1239. Is there anything in the new pages (I used to be able to open them from home) that would not play nice with that vintage IE 6?

The new skin for the Compendium does exhibit some odd styling issues in IE6 (mostly extra white space blocks), but it should still render the page rather than leaving you hanging.

Briefly, IE7 has been out since late 2006, and IE8 is now receiving the "please install now" push via Windows Update. IE6 is not something we will be designing for with existing or new sites.

Followup - I just tried clicking on the DDO Compendium Hot link from the Forum listing and it popped right up. The dead end only seems to nail me when clicking on the Radio button on the top of the page from the forum listings.....

more as I see more

Puzzling that the behavior would be different; both links end up at the same page. Again though, IE6 is not something we will be designing for or supporting.

[Zenako]

The new skin for the Compendium does exhibit some odd styling issues in IE6 (mostly extra white space blocks), but it should still render the page rather than leaving you hanging.

Briefly, IE7 has been out since late 2006, and IE8 is now receiving the "please install now" push via Windows Update. IE6 is not something we will be designing for with existing or new sites.


Puzzling that the behavior would be different; both links end up at the same page. Again though, IE6 is not something we will be designing for or supporting.

Thanks for the reply. Despite the assertions of some members of this forum, I would presume that given the demographics of the playerbase, that probably quite a few players fall into the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" mindset when it comes to things like Broswers. Only when they stop working with the subset of the web they visit would they even consider mucking up with a new version, not wanting to spend time debugging and reinstalling things to fix up some borks. Too many horror stories (real or just myth) about systems getting hosed when jumping on new versions of stuff like broswers, anti-virus apps, things like that. (I know most are isolated instances, but you never want to be that isolated instance.)

I will also echo the comments that installing a "browser of choice" on your work machine could and should get you terminated in many jobs.

[Borror0]

I will also echo the comments that installing a "browser of choice" on your work machine could and should get you terminated in many jobs.

Ask for approval, by explaining to the right department that the browser is outdated and you need to upgrade to the latest version.

Or, simply don't browse the Compendium at work.