IE is tied to your OS
It "knows" the difference between local and remote storage, but sadly=20
not so well between Web (HTTP) and Remote fileshare (SMB/Samba).

chm help files use IE, (even if you have "removed" IE as a browser). CHM=20
files where being exploited by Websites & Malware, so MS changed=20
behaviour of IE for local vs remote storage (even if mapped as drive=20
letter and not HTTP),.

There are registry settings to fix this. After one update .exes  using =20
CHM on network share in same folder had empty panels. I had to gooogle=20
how to fix network share behaviour.

There are also various "Zone" settings inside IE setup. On some settings=20
c:\ html content works properly and CDROM content doesn't

Also make sure any CSS files and all other files everywhere only use=20
relative paths.



On 24/09/2010 11:53, Justin Richards wrote:
> I am developing a web page with a text editor and testing with
> Internet Explorer Ver 8 and Firefox 3.6.10.  I used a web based CSS
> generator to generate the skeleton page.
>
> The page uses a style sheet and what has been completed so far is
> basically just the Navigation Panel with drop down menus.
>
> The work was getting saved to the desktop.   The work consisted of a
> parent directory called "test" which contained a file called
> "index.html" and a directory called "images"containing images.
>
> Both browsers happily rendered the page the same as far as I can tell
> and was happy with the progress.
>
> I decided to copy the folder to my H: drive which is a networked drive
> located on the same sub-net (cant see why this is important).
>
> Now, when I open the page in I.E. it displays the Nav Panel
> differently.  The page begins to render closer to the top of the
> browser window and the Text in the Nav Panel is pushed to the left and
> this results in making the Nav Panel smaller and no longer aligns with
> other elements correctly.  I spent considerable time getting these
> alignments correct.
>
> Firefox continues to render the page as before.
>
> I have experimented by placing on other network drives and other users
> desktops and the result is repeatable.
>
> That is, if it is on a network drive it displays differently in I.E.
>
> I have tried opening the index file from within the browser and also
> by double clicking the file but there is no change in behavior.
>
> How can the browser interpret the page different just because it is
> coming from a networked drive.  This is not via a web server but the
> server that hosts my H: drive also hosts a web server, a Windows type
> web server I think..
>
> I thought the whole idea of networked drives was that the system can
> simply treat the drives as if they are local.
>
> Anyone experienced this or anything similar.
>
> Cheers Justin

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