I’m not a great web page designer, but I like to view the source code of web pages now and then.
I recently went from Windows 98 SE/IE 5.X (?) to Windows XP/IE 6.0. I used to be able to right click and “View Source” to see the HTML. Now nothing happens.
I’m just guessing it’s a simple check box in the Security options or something, but I’m not sure what to look for.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
It’s a bug in IE. Clear your Temporary Internet Files by going to Tools|Internet Options and hitting Delete Files.
Thanks for the fast reply, and it worked!!
I never would have thought of that, thanks again.
If you use Mozilla or Firefox you won’t have this problem.
I’ll be sure to start a thread, “Should I switch to Mozilla or Firefox?”.
Well, you can become a great web designer if you were to use a standards-compliant web browsers. IE is not.
I’ve never made a web page, I enjoy looking at source code. Interesting that you should mention that IE is not compliant. The html object we are manipulating did not work for any of us except those who were running IE.
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I have nothing against 3rd party browsers, but IE works for what I need.
Um, for the record, if you want to become a “great web designer”, you’ll want to please the majority of your users, and they are not using either Mozilla or Firefox. I’ll leave it to you to research what primary browser you should test on.
While IE still holds the majority, FF users now account for 20% of the market according to the statistics page at www.w3schools.com. In any case, I’d say a truely great web designer would make the page work correctly in all browsers, which from my experience has meant: do the initial design in FF or Opera, then tweak it so that IE will render it correctly.
I hardly think standards compatablility should be beyond the abilities of a ‘great web designer’. 100% is more of a majority than 80%, no?
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