IE9 Odd Rendering

Froggitt

Needed to reset my IE browser, so took the opportunity to upgrade to IE9.

Seems OK except for many sites with adverts, possibly flash ones, display the advert in the top left hand corner, rather than where they should be eg middle of the page. Compatibility button doesnt solve the problem either.

Is it me or is it IE9?

Example......LinkedIn currently showing flash Blackberry ad for me in top left corner, rather than down the right underneath "people I might know", but when I refresh and if displays a "Cloud Computing" HTML ad, it displays it correctly.

toastydave

can you post an address for the poorly rendered page?

Froggitt

Sure - heres one. http://www.internetretailing.net/

Refresh till you get the flash Paypal ad all over the logo and the top left hand corner, and down the left hand side......theyre meant to be on the right hand side, but its just blanl there.

Froggitt

and http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news has flash ads also in the top left hand corner, not where they should be.

Froggitt

so does this http://www.iii.co.uk/

Froggitt

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie9-windows_7/ie9-and-adobe-flash-player-10-is-flasing-ads-in/32a86068-30c1-49a2-830e-c4588fe49d0a looks like it fixes the problem.

To disable hardware acceleration and use software rendering instead of hardware rendering to view the webpage, follow the steps below:

1. Click Start, Control Panel, Network and security and then clickInternet Options
2. Click the Advanced tab, and then browse to the Accelerated graphics section.
3. Click to select the Use software rendering instead of GPU rendering check box.
4. Click Apply, and then click OK.
5. Close all open Internet Explorer 9 windows, and then restart Internet Explorer 9.
6. View the webpage in Internet Explorer 9.

To re-enable hardware acceleration, follow the steps listed above and uncheck theUse software rendering instead of GPU rendering check box.

toastydave

Look ok to me, i will post some screenshots

vicx

Personally I prefer to use Firefox but I did do an upgrade on IE (IE9) and it somehow lost my favourite bar which was at the top of the page. I can't seem to find out how to add new favourite's on the bar so they are easily accessible.

As for the flash adverts, they are displayed at the top of my page on both Firefox and IE9.

mj12_2

Froggitt wrote: »

Needed to reset my IE browser, so took the opportunity to upgrade to IE9.

Seems OK except for many sites with adverts, possibly flash ones, display the advert in the top left hand corner, rather than where they should be eg middle of the page. Compatibility button doesnt solve the problem either.

Is it me or is it IE9?

Example......LinkedIn currently showing flash Blackberry ad for me in top left corner, rather than down the right underneath "people I might know", but when I refresh and if displays a "Cloud Computing" HTML ad, it displays it correctly.

If the other posters suggestion re hardware acceleration doesnt work have a look at the developer tools in the tools menu, you can set the browser to render in either IE7 or IE8 mode (both different to IE9 compatibility mode) in my experience both are very accurate to their intended emulations in terms of css rendering but jscripts are a bit touchy.