Sure wish I could just do that...but there are lots of folks not quite so computer literate as we are who are afraid to change anything on their computers... I had one woman locally who I told to download a copy if Legacy. She finally wrote to me a couple of days later to say she kept staring at the "download now" button but was afraid to click it! I went to her house and clicked it for her! Some people will get IE8 when thier kids buy them a new computer and not a day before. Suzie On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:55 AM, James Goff <goffer@chouteautel.com> wrote: > I just have to chime in.....If people don't have IE 8, then that's their > problem, not only does it not perhaps show your site incorrectly, but many > other sites as well. > > If they read updates and keep their programs up to date, then you/they > wouldn't have this/other problems. > > You can take the horse to water but you can't make them drink. I quit baby > sitting my kids when they reach adulthood age. > > James Goff > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Suzie Henderson" <henderson.suzie@gmail.com> > To: <txfannin@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 9:54 AM > Subject: Re: [TXFANNIN] Is the new site awful? > > > > Problem is...changing Dad's browser is easy...changing those thousands of > > other IE7 users is the difficult part! They are not always willing to > > cooperate with my requests no matter how politely asked. Unfortunately, > I > > need to tweak the site to make it work for IE7. > > > > Suzie > > > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Dennis Kowallek <kowallek@iglou.com> > > wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:58:17 -0700, Leona Garcia <lgarcia@ncia.com> > >> wrote: > >> > >> >go out on the internet and upgrade him to 8.0- free at microsoft > >> > > >> > >> That doesn't solve Suzie's problem of making the page look good for as > >> many browsers as possible. I think Suzie would like to know *WHY* she > >> sees the problem on her Dad's PC before suggesting that he change > >> browsers. > >> > >> -- > >> > >> Dennis Kowallek > >> Cincinnati, Ohio > >> kowallek@iglou.com > >> ****************** > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> TXFANNIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > TXFANNIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXFANNIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >