Internet Explorer, site won't display

[davidjackson]

Good day --
Here's the site: http://lastisfirst.org/sos/
I almost forget I am running the latest stable version of SOS

The site displays fine with Firefox and Safari, but not with IE? It was sort of working, but after I added content it asked me of I wanted to install a "ActiveX control" I  said, and you can see the results for yourselves at the link above.

This is your basic L.A.M.P. hosted by Powweb.

Any ideas?

David

[HandsomeWeb]

The cause of the problem is you have cut your text from a Microsoft Word Document and pasted it in the SOS Webpages WYSIWIG editor.  This not only pastes the text but a lot of 'unseen' XML code from Microsoft.  If you view the source from your home page, you'll see things like this:

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<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
<meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId" />
<meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator" />
<meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator" />
<link href="file:///C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\msohtml1\01\clip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List" />
<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:RelyOnVML /> <o:AllowPNG /> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:PunctuationKerning /> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas /> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables /> <w:SnapToGridInCell /> <w:WrapTextWithPunct /> <w:UseAsianBreakRules /> <w:DontGrowAutofit /> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]-->
<style><!--
 /* Font Definitions */
 @font-face
{font-family:"Brush Script MT";
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:script;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy";
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:script;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:swiss;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:-1610611985 1073750139 0 0 159 0;}
 /* Style Definitions */
 p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{mso-style-parent:"";
margin-top:0in;
margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:10.0pt;
margin-left:0in;
line-height:115%;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;
mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";}
@page Section1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;
mso-header-margin:.5in;
mso-footer-margin:.5in;
mso-paper-source:0;}
div.Section1
{page:Section1;}
--></style>
The "Paste From Word" button in the editor was added to address this, but the current version has a bug.  (See the Tiny MCE bug report.).

The Workaround
Do not cut and paste from a Microsoft Word Document.  If your text is currently in a Word document do one of the following:
 1. Save that document as text.
 2. Open the document with notepad.
 3. Then cut and paste.

OR

 1. Cut and paste your text into notepad.
 2. Then cut and paste from notepad to SOS Webpages.   

NOTE:  There are NO Active X components in SOS Webpages; they would not be allowed by its license.
There are NO active X controls in SOS Webpages.  The Microsoft code tells IE to load an Add-On, but I would always say 'no' to that.

[HandsomeWeb]

The bug in the "Paste From Word" button has been fixed as of SOS Webpages Version 1.1.5.