Internet Explorer 8 problem

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   Wow! thanks for all the advice everyone. I have already started making changes and shrunk the home page size by half!!

Just a couple of points to help me on my way: 

1) As IE8 may not have cleared the buffer on the second pass. Is there any code I could use to clear the buffer. 

2) 'View cart' statements. Are they really that code heavy that I should only have one on the form.

Regarding the number of products passed. I have tried to keep the number of clicks a customer needs to make to a minimum With my way you scroll through a screen full of products; key in a quantity against those you want to buy then press ENTER once to transfer everything to the basket rather than the usual method of find a product-key in the quantity-press enter-go to the basket-come back out of the basket-find the next product. Plus in my defence (apart from IE8) it works quickly and without fault and has for the past 3 years. Though obviously if a reduction is needed for it to work with IE8 then I am going to have to look at shrinking the pages.

I will also look into WB6 to see if it can encode the HTML a little more efficiently. I would suspect it does somewhere in its options. Unfortunately, Dreamweaver is a little beyond my current budget, though I may be able to stretch it to a book or two!!

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GARRYDEIGHTON Members Profile Find Members Posts Newbie Joined: 09 March 2008 Status: Offline Points: 32	Post Options Post Reply Quote GARRYDEIGHTON Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 January 2010 at 9:24pm
	Wow! thanks for all the advice everyone. I have already started making changes and shrunk the home page size by half!! Just a couple of points to help me on my way: 1) As IE8 may not have cleared the buffer on the second pass. Is there any code I could use to clear the buffer. 2) 'View cart' statements. Are they really that code heavy that I should only have one on the form. Regarding the number of products passed. I have tried to keep the number of clicks a customer needs to make to a minimum With my way you scroll through a screen full of products; key in a quantity against those you want to buy then press ENTER once to transfer everything to the basket rather than the usual method of find a product-key in the quantity-press enter-go to the basket-come back out of the basket-find the next product. Plus in my defence (apart from IE8) it works quickly and without fault and has for the past 3 years. Though obviously if a reduction is needed for it to work with IE8 then I am going to have to look at shrinking the pages. I will also look into WB6 to see if it can encode the HTML a little more efficiently. I would suspect it does somewhere in its options. Unfortunately, Dreamweaver is a little beyond my current budget, though I may be able to stretch it to a book or two!!

Support Members Profile Find Members Posts RomanCart Team Joined: 16 March 2004 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 10803	Post Options Post Reply Quote Support Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 January 2010 at 9:52pm
	Hi, Clearing the buffer is not something you can do - we are just speculating why IE8 would have this problem as essentially IE8 or any browser should never freeze like this. There is not normally a problem with sending lots of products to the cart at once, as you can see when you use other browsers. However IE8 appears to have a problem with your site specifically. Ideally you need to use trial and error to find out why it is doing this. In our tests reducing the number of fields you are posting fixes it. However, you don't neccessarily have to reduce the number of fields, I think that it is the complexity of your code which is making the large number of fields a problem. Try making the site really simple if possible and see if it is ok then - i.e. don't use css absolute positioning on everything and keep hidden fields as simple hidden fields. I realise that this may not be easy if you are not familiar with coding html yourself - if this is the case then the simplest thing is to split it out to multiple forms. Many Thanks Support