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Thread ID: 78416 2007-04-14 14:40:00 Help New Yorkers discover the great New Zealand pie Laura (43) PC World Chat
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541011 2007-04-14 14:40:00 One with a difference...
... some patriotism involved.

As people here are obliging testers of websites, I'm hoping you'll help me to help the guys who run the Down Under Bakery in Brooklyn, New York.

As the header says, they're trying to increase a market for our kiwi pies (and Aussie, but we won't go there) by delivering them around New York.

Naturally, they have a website - and on my first viewing, it displayed as a text-jumbled dog's breakfast.
So I told them that.
They were surprised & naturally concerned, so I said I'd call in the troops here.
The thing is - maybe it's my computer..?

I tried it next in Firefox & it displays perfectly.

The problem browser is IE6.
I'm aware mine has text issues with a few other websites, but most are fine. And even the not-so-good aren't nearly as bad as this one.

So could we have opinions, please, from as many different browsers as possible.
That way, we can see whether they need a website repair - or I need to grovel for worrying them unnecessarily.

It's http://www.dubpies.com
Laura (43)
541012 2007-04-14 15:09:00 Works fine for me in Mozilla 1.7 and IE 6. Greg (193)
541013 2007-04-14 19:24:00 Works fine here - Firefox 3.0 Alpha 3 (Gran Paradiso), Debian Lenny. Erayd (23)
541014 2007-04-14 19:41:00 Yup, site works fine in Opera 9.2 (the latest version), and Firefox 2.0.0.3.

In IE 7, it cuts the bottom of the title Down Under Bakery (the text) off.

Snapshot of IE 7 (www.imagef1.net.nz)
Speedy Gonzales (78)
541015 2007-04-14 21:04:00 Worked fine in Konqueror
Put it on other computer and it worked fine with Firefox2 and IE6
Myth (110)
541016 2007-04-14 21:06:00 $4.50 per pie?!! And thats US. pctek (84)
541017 2007-04-14 21:19:00 Works fine FF 2.0.0.3, and IE7, although IE7 shows a bit of the header at the top chopped off. pcuser42 (130)
541018 2007-04-14 21:31:00 looked crap in my F/fox 2.0... all jumbled. Worked ok fine in IE tab.

Laura, I've had this problem with a few sites for a long time with F/Fox. You may find that it is your display settings in Windows (if that's what you use). I run 1280x1024 but as it made text look too small I bumped up the DPI etc in display settings and I've never been able to change it back easily.
Shortcircuit (1666)
541019 2007-04-14 22:15:00 $4.50 per pie?!! And thats US.

Just like Ponsonby Pies, or any other 'fancy' pie in poncy arse suburbs of Orcland

Website fine in FFox 2.0.0.3 and IE6 and Opera 9.02
bob_doe_nz (92)
541020 2007-04-14 22:21:00 windows
ie 7 chopps off a bit of bottom of the header image
ff 2 fine

fedora 6 ( vmplayer )
ff 1.8 fine
beama (111)
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