If the [IE7 on Vista ]browser doesn't have anything nice to display, it might display nothing?

by Michael S. Kaplan, published on 2008/02/09 13:11 -05:00, original URI: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/michkap/archive/2008/02/09/7566284.aspx

Another recent Suggestion Box item from favored "regular" reader Tanveer Badar:

Another problem from the [not] random reader.

Your post No charset meta tag? causes FF 3 beta 2 to crash with a buffer overflow.

Hehehe. Sleek :).

And in IE7 it does not show anything although the html is there if you do "View Source".

Could you investigate the issue so I can enter a bug for IE7 somewhere?

Okay, do here is what I am seeing here across a wide range of browsers I have installed:

IE 6.0 on XP SP2 -- page looks good
IE 7.0 on XP SP2 -- page looks good
IE 7.0 on Vista -- all text is missing from the post, just as was reported
FireFox 2.0.0.2.12 on Vista -- page looks good
Opera 9.25 on Vista -- page looks good
Safari 3.0.4 (523.13) on Vista -- page looks okay, though I'm getting notdef glyphs rather than YI even though the font is installed

And then there is that bug Tanveer mentioned about the FireFox beta someone may want to look into.... :-)

Is anyone from the IE team reading SiaO these days?

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Simon on 11 Feb 2008 1:18 PM:

I checked in a fix for the Firefox crash -- thank you for testing!

Carlos on 21 Feb 2008 7:46 PM:

I have this problem, IE on vista will not display content and yet it works well on every other browser.

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