[thelist] IE7 XP differs from IE7 Vista

graham.hays graham.hays at visualcomputing.co.uk
Tue Mar 10 17:32:31 CDT 2009


Ok will try that although I did check everything (I thought) on the vista
m/c. I didn't know about ctrl+0 though -- thanks Barney

Graham

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> [mailto:thelist-bounces at lists.evolt.org] On Behalf Of Barney Carroll
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> Subject: Re: [thelist] IE7 XP differs from IE7 Vista
> 
> They both use the same internal rendering engine: I imagine 
> your problem has more to do with different settings on the 
> two browsers - probably just zoom/font-size changes.
> Try hitting Ctrl+0 on both (resets font size to normal), see 
> if anything changes.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Barney Carroll
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> 2009/3/10 graham.hays <graham.hays at visualcomputing.co.uk>
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > This is a bit vague but I'm getting some problems with IE7 (no 
> > surprise there then) in that sites look fine on my machine 
> (under XP) 
> > but are displayed differently on IE7 under Vista (principally the 
> > fonts seem larger and the site has to be scrolled to view its right 
> > edge). Unfortunately I don't have regular access to a vista m/c but 
> > does anyone know of any obvious differences between the XP 
> and Vista 
> > implementations of IE7?
> >
> > And assuming I will then need to produce an IE7-Vista specific css 
> > file - using conditional comments (my prefered method) - how do you 
> > differentiate between IE7 XP & IE7 Vista?
> >
> > Graham
> >
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