An odd browsing problem

[coolzhu]

When open my site with IE it looks like the pic below:

<snip>

But in Firefox it works fine.
Who knows why?

[edited by: trillianjedi at 1:06 pm (utc) on Feb. 20, 2006]
[edit reason] No URL's please, as per TOS [/edit]

[trillianjedi]

Hi Coolzhu and welcome to WebmasterWorld!

Please note as per our TOS that we prefer to keep actual sites off the board here and talk generics rather than specifics.

What we really need is a verbal description of the problem.

Cross-browser compatability is a big topic of discussion and this thread might be better off in the browsers forum so I'll move it over.

TJ

[drhowarddrfine]

Difficult to say without the link or code. Typically the problem is with IE. It is old, buggy and non-standard.

[tedster]

A good place to start debugging cross-browser display trouble is making sure that the code is valid. Otherwise there is a good chance of getting extremely frustrated.

W3C Validator - HTML [validator.w3.org]
W3C Validator - CSS [jigsaw.w3.org]

[coolzhu]

Thanks a lot for your relpy.
In fact, my 'index.html' file is W3C validated.
And my problem is that when opening my IE with my URL "#*$!x.com" it will automatically popup a file download dialog box and if I enter the full URL "xxx.com/index.html", then it will show my page and everything is OK.
However, both the two URLs works OK in Firefox.
I guess there is some wrong configurations of my site. what is it? who can help?
BTY, I connect to the Internet by proxy.

[jdMorgan]

It sounds like the server's default MIME-type is incorrect.

You can check the MIME-type of your "/" page by viewing Tools->Page Information in Firefox. It should be "text/html".

It sounds like the MIME-type for filetype ".html" is overridding the default, but since "/" has no filetype, this override won't happen, and the default the MIME-type is wrong.

Jim

[coolzhu]

Hi, Jim.
I have checked the MIME-type of my root "index.html" file in firefox. It is "text/html".
Then, how can I change the default MIME-type of my site?

[Wlauzon]

Try making a copy of the .html file and rename it to index.htm, then see which - if any - that IE picks up as the default index page.

I ran into this a while back, but don't recall what the fix was..just that I tracked it down doing that. Sorry I can't help more, but I am 97% clueless anyway :)

[coolzhu]

Hey, thanks for all your help.
I find that if I set all my IE's option to default, it works OK!

[coolzhu]

My God, it doesn't work again.