My website is amsmachine.net. When trying to open in IE8,
nothing will come up. Any help is appreciated. I will read the post
below and try to figure this out. Thanks. Tom
Post by rob^_^Hi Tom
See this thread -
Title: MS Office Publisher 2007 Web Sites
By: rob^_^
Date: 5/11/2009
Here is my response and answer to another Publisher site owner. There
IS an issue with XP/IE8 only. Can you give us your web site address
for us to have a look at and to confirm it is the same issue?
Hi Sully,
Thanks for the link.
I can view the menu images and all other images fine on Vista x86 and
XP/SP3 IE6, but not on an XP/SP3 IE8 virtual image. The difference
is that I have MS Office installed only on the Vista machine.
You have conditional comments for MS Office
<!--[if gte mso 9]>
and for VML
<!--[if gte vml 1]>
(IE8 on XP is not recognizing these conditional comments, while IE8
on Vista x86 does. This is an issue/bug.)
To correct your pages for XP machines running IE8.
1. Make a backup of your website somewhere on your computer (FTP it
from your web site)
2. Open up your site in IE8. Start with your homepage... Index.htm
3. Press F12 to display the Developer Tool. You should see that the
browser mode is IE8 and the Document Mode is Quirks. Select the
File>Customize Internet Explorer View Source>Default Viewer to ensure
you have the color coded built-in editor selected.
4. Select View>Source from the IE8 menu to open the Editor.
5. Save a copy of the markup to a text file. From the editor
File>Save Source (select as txt file extension). Open the saved file
up with notepad (default txt file type editor) and display the Source
Viewer and Notepad windows side by side for comparison.
Using the Notepad copy you have to find and delete those sections of
code that are appearing as Green in color in the Source Viewer. viz.
those blocks of code within the <!--[if gte mso 9]> and <!--[if gte
vml 1]> conditional comment blocks.
Once you have removed those blocks, save the notepad version as a htm
file and then ftp it back to your server to over-write your sever
copies.
Do the same for all the htm files on your site, nothing else has to
change (images and links etc.).
If this seems too much effort, then you may consider hiring an
under-graduate or student to do it for you. (Print a copy of this
thread to instruct them as to what to do.) There is no real hurry as
the uptake of IE8 by users will take some time and your site will
currently display fine in IE6 and 7 and in 8 on Vista. Other browsers
(that have a small market share) are un-affected by conditional
comments, they ignore the blocks.
Ultimately though you should upgrade your site using a more modern
editing program. Perhaps another job for a struggling student or
maybe your kids.
Can you leave you site unchanged for a week or two? The good folks at
MS will see this thread and may like to test it themselves. (Some are
guitar players, you may get a sale or two).
Can you also post back with your OS version and Service Pack level (I
assume it is XP/SP3).
Regards.
I have a website created in the Publisher Program and IE8 will not
display it
properly. The navigation bars will not display.
http://www.sullysstraps.com
Hi All,
If you are a web publisher using MS Publisher 2003 or higher and
are experiencing problems displaying your site in IE8 could you
please post your
web site address to this thread for us to have a look at.
and whether or not your site was created from a Web Site Template
or an Imported Word document.
Regards.
I am having the same issue. Have you figured out how to fixe this
yet? If so, what did you do? Thanks. Tom
I recently downloaded an update for Internet Explorer 8. I use
microsoft publisher to create my website, and that has worked fine
until this update.
Now my website is not showing all the items I created (including
the navigation bars) on the actual website in Internet Explorer 8.
Everything
shows up fine on my laptop that still has the previous version of Internet
Explorer. I would think these products would be compatible since I am using
a Microsoft product to create and publish my website to the web, and a new
updated Microsoft browser to view it. Is there any way you can
help with this situation? Please e-mail me at