From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Matthew Pennell
Sent: 18 October 2008 20:22
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Big Browsing Issues on clients PC Laptop AOL
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Kristine Cummins
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I just launched a site, and it's browsing fine on my PC & Mac laptop
from IE5-8 browsers to FF etc. However, when my client visits her site on
her PC laptop using AOL, it is browsing (as if) the stylesheet is applying
only half way. I've recommended her to download the latest IE or FF, but
she hasn't done it yet. When she goes to her place of work, it looks fine.
How could there be this huge discrepancy on her PC Laptop using AOL?
I can't speak for recently, but years ago AOL used to basically install
itself *as* your browser. The browser would be badged AOL, and it wouldn't
render quite like anything else that was around at the time. Now this was
probably around the time of IE4, so I would hope that things have changed -
I just checked the analytics account for a huge (180m pageviews/month) site,
and there are zero records of any browser with the string "AOL" in the
identification string, which suggests that there is currently no such thing
as an AOL browser.
Perhaps your stylesheet is cached by an AOL proxy?
- Matthew
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Since AOL5 (and possibly earlier) the Windows version of AOL has used the
Internet Explorer rendering engine. If a suitable version of IE was already
installed it used that, otherwise it installed a newer version.
It would be interesting to see if the same problems occur when she accesses
the website using Internet Explorer.
Steve
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