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Post by chuckh on Jul 30, 2015 16:06:25 GMT
So I designed a website for a customer using Antenna and she is using an older version of IE. She is constantly complaining to me that she can't see the site as it should be. There are things missing or partially there. She wants me to fix it on my end. I tell her that she really needs to update her browser to the newest version, but I don't think she can because she still has a Windows XP computer. Is there a way I can make the site I made in Antenna compatible with older browsers. Someone should build that fix into the next update for Antenna. Your help would be appreciated.
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Post by Frank on Jul 30, 2015 16:38:33 GMT
I don't think so.. I think its only good to IE9 while showing everything perfectly as designed. Since it uses HTML5 your pretty much stuck with using a newish browser if you want to see the newer CSS styles.
They should see something acceptable just no bell and whistles.. Unless they have even farther back then IE8. They'll need to use any new browser FF, Chrome, opera.
maybe I'm wrong.
Cheers,
Frank
Can we see a link... I have an old XP I'll check it out.
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Post by chuckh on Jul 30, 2015 19:38:05 GMT
For some people(like the woman I designed the site for), they never think of updating anything and then wonder why their system is not running properly. The link is for a wig site that I have been working on for quite some time now. www.wigsandthings.net It contains hundreds of images that I am attaching lightboxes to for an information popup window. I know that IE has trouble loading so many image files so any help with trying to speed up the load time would be helpful to me as well. I am still learning the tricks of website design and I know that there is so much more I can do to make better designs, it is indeed a learning process that does not happen over night. |
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Post by Frank on Jul 30, 2015 20:55:39 GMT
it's not really an IE problem, its a big images problem. The images are very big so yes it takes a tad to load. The thumbnails could look the same at a lot smaller KB per image. (some are optimized some aren't). Then the large image (which only get downloaded at time of viewing) take awhile to show because they are pretty big in KB and actual dimensions(One was 1.03 mg) This is so important that each image be optimized down to the smallest KB possible and exact dimension you need. While still looking perfect. I don't know if you read the last post I did.. stormdance.proboards.com/thread/6236/re-size-image-mouse-overThe thumbnail images will all load together..so if you have a lot of heavy KB thumbnails they add up.. X42 images per page. Food for thought. |
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Post by Graham on Jul 30, 2015 22:25:55 GMT
A few things I also noticed besides the huge graphic sizes is the text on the wigs when you open one it it is all blury, that is in chrome, IE11, Edge. It appears to be an issue in all browsers old or new  www.wigsandthings.net/esteticacolors.htmthis image is from your colour page and its nearly unreadable in some browsers the text is very blury because it looks like its been done in the image program itself. Maybe a few things to try as Fran suggested is to trim down the image sizes and I would remove the text from the images and use text boxes Graham |
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Post by Frank on Jul 31, 2015 0:17:43 GMT
I tried seeing the site on my XP with IE8. I expected to see a couple of items not rendering as smoothly as the planets or missing FX, like shadows or woff text but was stopped dead in my tracks with the main MENUS not opening? How do you have the trigger set up for the menu to open? I see no reason for it not to work regardless of the IE at hand.
Frank
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Post by Frank on Jul 31, 2015 11:22:21 GMT
In case you want to see what I'm talking about image wise: Since the original image is actually 2176x1447 but browser resized to 1069x710 you can reduce the original dimension down to 1069x710 cutting off a ton of KB's... Attachments:
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