Comments on: Site access issues in IE7 fixed

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:36:00 +0000

I have Sitemeter on my blog, but didn’t have any problems with it crashing anyone’s browser…

… primarily because no one ever goes there.

By: Great White Rat

Great White Rat — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:05:49 +0000

Steve, that seems to be confirmed. I removed Sitemeter from my restricted zone and this page loads correctly now.

By: steveegg

steveegg — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:53:23 +0000

The latest word from Sitemeter is they fixed it.

By: Sister Toldjah

Sister Toldjah — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:11:13 +0000

steve – IIRC, I actually did download the beta of IE7 and liked it so much I decided to keep it. Even with the “emulate IE7″ button on 8, it was still buggy for me.

By: T-Steel

T-Steel — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:29:16 +0000

Brought us down over at The Moderate Voice as well. The whole “roll out the big change and OOPS” mentality with many web software (software in general) “companies” is tiresome.

By: steveegg

steveegg — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:51:38 +0000

Understandable. Betas are not for everybody.

By: Sister Toldjah

Sister Toldjah — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:35:54 +0000

steve, I just went back to IE7. Gonna wait a little while on IE8.

By: steveegg

steveegg — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 15:00:15 +0000

Noted that, Jim. I also found claims (and evidence) from a couple of prominent local lefties that they’re also victims of the Google/Blogger splog glitch.

By: steveegg

steveegg — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:57:45 +0000

William Teach just put up another temporary fix that allows SiteMeter to stay up and IE7/6/5.5 to see the site - use the HTML code instead of the JavaScript one.

By: jim b

jim b — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:56:10 +0000

The problem is bigger. Milblogs are being attacked: Read about it here: LINK Senator Obama's Netwarriors go over to the offensive? By The Armorer on August 1, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (25) | TrackBacks (2) It would appear that just possibly, free speech isn't a goal of the Golden Horde of Attila-the-Net-Huns that supports Senator Obama. No, I don't think that the campaign is sponsoring this. But yesterday anti-Obama bloggers and Hillary bloggers who blog on websites controlled by Google started finding themselves locked out of their blogs. Well, that or there's been a huge hiccup with Google's system - I suppose we should allow for that, too, vice being all Chicken Little about it. But, hey, we're bloggers!

By: steveegg

steveegg — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:51:14 +0000

The trick now is to find a site that still has SiteMeter active. Both Hot Air and Michelle Malkin took it down, but I know Badger Blog Alliance still has it up.

By: Sister Toldjah

Sister Toldjah — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:45:01 +0000

Thanks, steve – I am going to try out IE8 now.

By: steveegg

steveegg — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:36:24 +0000

In IE8, there is a button on the toolbar labeled “Emulate IE7″ (if you’re using only icons, it’s a 7 inside a blue box). Click that so it stays highlighted, and the rendering engine will emulate IE7.

By: Sister Toldjah

Sister Toldjah — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:27:28 +0000

How do you do an IE7 emulation with the IE8 update? (Sorry, I don’t understand a lot of this stuff)

By: steveegg

steveegg — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:16:06 +0000

The main bug is the IE8-native rendering. A lot of pages (a prime example is Haloscan comments) do not render properly. That is more-or-less fixed with IE7 emulation, though Ace’s “beta” site (the new.mu.nu one) still doesn’t display quite right even with that.

The other one I found in my limited testing is the inline AutoComplete doesn’t work.

As for stat services, I’m pretty satisfied with StatCounter, which hasn’t been affected by this.

The good – it’s free, it lets you see the entire IP address (versus the obscuring of the last octet in the free version of SiteMeter), it lets you have an invisible counter for free, and it allows you to see the details of the last 500 pageloads for free (versus SM’s last 100 visitors).

The bad – it’s sometimes slow, the admin pages are not quite as user-friendly as SM, and it does not obscure any part of the IP address for visitors (which is why I don’t offer public stats). Also, my project hasn’t been converted to the SC4 standard, so I don’t get outclick info (brand-new accounts do get that).