Building your own website browser question.

I am in the process of building a website using a ‘build your own site’ on-line tool. It just about looks okay but when I link content to an external site it won’t display unless I adjust the security settings within IE. I do get the message about displaying non-secure content but it won’t display even if I say I want to display the content.

It works fine in Firefox and Opera so is this a glitch with IE or is there something else I am missing?

Welcome to the world of web dev, IE is NOT your friend!

you have dicsovered the programmer’s phrase: ‘it works on my machine’.

it will serve you well

Now try: ‘let’s run it again and see if it does the same thing’

Our web dev here spents about 70% of his time fixing IE specific bugs in our web app.

>message about displaying non-secure content

sounds like your site is delivered over https and you’re using an iframe to deliver http content, or maybe vice versa on the protocols. theoretically it’s a browser setting but in practice it’s probably the way you’re doing it. Without further details though…

The problem is that (according to google analytics on all the sites I’ve done) most people who will view the site will probably be using IE, hardly anyone will use Firefox, Opera or even Safari.

That’s pretty interesting, no-one I know uses IE anymore.

>That’s pretty interesting, no-one I know uses IE anymore.

Most corporate stuff we do is IE.

I see, where I work (pretty big place) allows its users to pick what they want to use (and supports any of the main browsers). I have worked in companies in the past where it was “you will use this”.

coffeeking – Member

That’s pretty interesting, no-one I know uses IE anymore.

As _tom_ says most people use IE. If you look at any hosting stats people using IE vastly outweigh any other browsers put together!

nbt – it is an iframe delivering http content. Is there a way around it?

We have free choice here, but when we do work for clients – and internal clients – IE 7 and upwards is on the list.

>nbt – it is an iframe delivering http content. Is there a way around it?

ok, the problem is there’s a clash between HTTPS and HTTP. WHy are you using HTTPS?

ok, the problem is there’s a clash between HTTPS and HTTP. WHy are you using HTTPS?

Not sure, it is probably the way the build your own site has been set-up – I will investigate!