Internet Explorer 8 help!

[achuah]

Hey there - i need some help!

Here is a new variation on the IE8 problem theme?.

I run two sites based on the JA_purity template. Both work perfectly well in IE8, IE7, Firefox, Chome etc etc. ? except for one thing?..

I put in a weblink from one site to the other. The child site opens fine PROVIDED that I launch it in the parent window (not nice). But, if I launch the child site in a new window the first view is all messed up because the font size in the main component area is incorrectly rendered (too large) and everything in the left side of the site is displaced to the bottom of the window (grrrrr !). But then, the first time you navigate around in the child site everything corrects itself and is fine thereafter.

I checked what happens when I weblinked to other sites that I could find which were also clearly built with Joomla! and using variants of the JA_purity template. Same thing ! So, its not just me (phew).

I checked the trick of removing the gte from <!--[if gte IE 7.0]> in the index.php file, and it was not there in the version of my_japurity that I started out with, so I guess this has been attended to ?at source? by the Joomla! Admin.

So, anyone got any ideas? I?ve rummaged through the template code for some time and not coming up with any solutions. Its such a specific set of conditions under which the problem occurs that it ought to be traceable, but I can?t find it.

This ONLY happens with IE8 ? not with Firefox, Chrome, Safari. I despair of IE8. Don?t like using it myself, but 80% of the visitors to my sites do, so I have to accommodate it. Do you think MS do this on purpose ?

Parent site using Joomla 1.5.20
Child site using Joomla 1.5.15
(but the problem is just the same when parent and child are inverted)

Parent page?. http://www.mirrorsailingscotland.org/index.php?option=com_weblinks&view=category&id=3&Itemid=6

Click on the ?ASYC?? weblink to open in the parent window. Shift-click to open in a new window and see the problem.

So annoying! T-T
please help!

[Arno]

Hi,
Here is only support for jDownloads.
So please post your question in a Windows or Joomla forum.