Comments on: Zooming Backgrounds in Internet Explorer 7

By: Chiron Allen

Chiron Allen — Sat, 10 May 2008 08:32:28 +0000

It works! I kept the color and background image on the < body > and simply added a background property to the < html > a color only. Now everything zooms beautifully in IE7. Thank you for this tip.

By: John

John — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:56:16 +0000

I don’t know why, but I was having the same problem even though my faux columns were in a div tag. your html fix worked great. Thanks so much for posting this!

By: Zoe

Zoe — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 11:09:22 +0000

Great post, Stef. I hadn’t run into this bug either because I almost always place my faux columns backgrounds on a div. This is good to know.

By: Stef.

Stef. — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:54:33 +0000

@joe lewis – I like VMware better than Parallels, only ’cause it doesn’t seem to slow my computer down so much (but yea, I only use it for testing as well)…

@deborah – yea – JoJo told me he had wanted to write an article dealing with the same thing — and I said, “go for it, dude!” The more information, the merrier web folks are.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:34:44 +0000

Looks like Adrian just posted the how to on the Community MX site for dealing with IE7 and zoom backgrounds.

By: Joe Lewis

Joe Lewis — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 05:12:11 +0000

Very interesting – it’s always something, isn’t it?

How are you liking VMWare so far? I am using Parallels and it is great so far, but I’ve heard VMWare has some speed improvements. I may not really need the speed since I only use it to see how bad things break in IE.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:57:12 +0000

Hi Stephanie,

I believe the woman who made the comment about zoom in IE7 was Cheryl Wise from Houston. Her site is: http://by-expression.com/.

Cheryl and I had dinner (or was it lunch?) together with some Dallas usability professionals I met at the conference. If I remember correctly, she is an Expression Web expert.

By: Stef.

Stef. — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 15:29:04 +0000

Hi Deborah – yes, I remember you. Hope you’re well!

I haven’t heard a thing from J about the podcasts. When I verified my link was correct on this post, the site still said, “Coming soon.” (I know we were told our video podcast interviews, from Voices That Matter, would take 2-3 months.) I guess these things take some time.

You don’t remember who the woman was that said in my session that she had given up faux columns, do you? I’m aggravated with my brain because it was someone I knew from a list or something… thinking… thinking… I wanted to point her to the fix.

ciao.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:37:24 +0000

Hey Stephanie,

It’s Deborah, fellow Community MX member who spoke with you before your presentation at Webmaster Jam Session. Glad to hear there’s a solution for faux columns in IE7. Is there any update on when the podcasts from the conference will be posted? I checked with J Cornelius last month, and he said soon.