I cannot view a Publisher 2007 beta2 website in IE 7 beta2, but I.

[PatDPT]

I just built a website in Publisher 2007 beta2, however, I cannot view the
whole website in IE 7 beta2. (I can view the first page, but can't get into
any other pages.) However, I am able to view the entire website from Mozilla
Firefox.

Any suggestions? It this a Beta version issue? And if so, is it an issue
with Publisher, or with IE?

Thanks for your input...

 

[DavidF]

Pub 2007 websites view ok in IE 6, so that would imply that it is associated
with IE 7. Also as the navbar wizard writes relative links, I would suggest
that you go to Web Options and untick "Organize supporting files in a
folder", republish after deleting your old HTML files and the subfolder from
your host, and see if that makes any difference. Do absolute links work ok?

Please post your results or further questions on the webbuilding newsgroup
(microsoft.public.publisher.webdesign). I would like to know what happens.
You might also post this as a bug to the Microsoft beta site.

DavidF

 

[PatDPT]

Thanks for the tip. I deleted all of the old files from the host, then
replublished the files after deselecting "organize supporting files in a
folder." However, I still cannot view any of the other pages in the website
other than the first page that opens. Absolute links work fine from this
first page, but the navigation bottons do not seem to be taking me to the
correct page. (it just shows a blank screen...not an error, but simply a
white screen) When viewing the website through Publisher "preview" it seems
to work fine when the pages are being read from my computer. After making
the above changes, the website again loads fine with Mozilla Firefox.

The website domain is being forwarded to another hosting account that I own,
which is being "masked" so that it appears that you are at the original
website. Would the masking be interfering with the ability to view pages
within the site?

Thanks for your input.

Pat D

 

[PatDPT]

I called Microsoft support and they ran me through the reset process of IE 7
beta2, but this still didn't affect the problem. I am wondering if it might
be the security settings in IE 7 that are preventing me from seeing the other
pages. Phishing filter perhaps? I have disabled all the security settings
to see if that changed anything, but still no luck. Here is the website if
you are interested in seeing the problem.

www.ThinkPhysicalTherapy.org or www.ThinkPhysicalTherapy.com

Both of these domain names forward you to my other site (although it is
"masked") which hosts these two domains. If you enter the actual domain
which is hosting the site, it seems to work fine in Firefox or IE 7. Here is
the actual domain which is hosting the other domains listed above.

www.patnleslie.com/index3

From here, the site seems to load and function fine in IE 7. However, the
domain isn't very "professional." So I wanted to "mask" it and use the two
other domains listed above.

So could this be a "masking" problem picked-up by the security settings?

Thanks for your time.

 

[DavidF]

Pat D,

The problem is the masking, not IE 7. As the navbar wizard writes a relative
link, that link is broken by the masking. If you hover your mouse over your
About Physical Therapy link, you will see in the status bar:
"index3_Page386.htm", and when you click that link it will try to transfer
you to http://www.thinkphysicaltherapy.org/index3_Page386.htm, but your page
is actually at http://www.patnleslie.com/index3_Page386.htm and thus the
white page. (and by the way, if you prefer the use of the supporting folder,
it should make no difference in this case)

When you "mask" the domain, you are framing the page. Go to View > Source
and you can see this. Pub 2002, 2003 and 2007 do not support framing, and
all produce code that includes identifying the browser. If it is IE then the
browser gets Publisher's VML code (Pub 2000 has a different coding engine
and doesn't use VML) and FireFox gets different code that actually works.
Hover your mouse over the About Physical Therapy link in FireFox, and you
will note in the status bar an absolute link to the correct location of the
file.

Your choices are to do away with the wizard produced navbar and the relative
links and build your own menu with absolute links. Or don't frame your
site...its probably not a good idea anyway, on several levels. Or you can
perhaps try inserting the following code snippet to see if that helps. This
was posted on the webdesign newsgroup some time ago, and I have not tested
it.

-------

<TITLE>Can't be in a frame</TITLE>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT TYPE="TEXT/JAVASCRIPT">
<!-- Hide script from old browsers

if (top.location != self.location) {
top.location = self.location
}
// End hiding script from old browsers -->
</SCRIPT>

 

[PatDPT]

Thank you so much for your diagnosis!!!!! I will just go ahead and pay for
hosting for this domain name. I really appreciate your help!

 

[DavidF]

You are welcome...

DavidF

Thank you so much for your diagnosis!!!!! I will just go ahead and pay
for
hosting for this domain name. I really appreciate your help!