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Okay I have put a site up to test in IE and of course things are a little all over the place, but one image refuses to apear in IE 6 under XP. I have tried other images and they come in fine. The thing it that when I look at source code instead if this:

{site_url}imgs/banner.jpg

I get this

<! --                                 -->

I have never come across this before. I have resaved the image in question but nothing. I have 7 other alternative images for headers and now they are not coming in. I even renamed it but the same result. Really weirding me out!

Here’s the Link. It’s the banner_hockey.jpg.

<div id="banner">
{site_url}imgs/banner_hockey.jpg
<h1>Hockey Club| Home</h1>
</div>

I have also tried other things, like taking out conditionals for IE just in case and changing the order of divs etc. Now it’s getting all messed up!

Any ideas??
Dave

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Hi Silenz

Oh yes I see what you mean, just took that out now as I was trying other things.

I do see the banner now with IE6 under XP.

If you really get

<! --                                 -->

instead of the image I can only imagine some third-party ad-blocking program on your PC mistakenly cutting out the image.

Oh that’s good. So you can see it? Well so maybe it’s McAfee doing something with the Interenet settings and blocking images. I will try this out.

Well I turned off Ad Pop up on McAfee and guess what, the images appeared. That is very annoying as this is a default on this software. No I have to find away to bypass this. Maybe it’s in the name?

Yes, “banner” is probably an unfortunate choice.

Yes indeed Ingmar. But I have renamed it and it is still not coming in. It seems a little arbitary.

I have been looking into it and it seems McAfee is blocking the image (A) Because it over a certain size and (B) because if the path name, maybe ‘imgs/’ (C) where the location of the image is in the body of the HTML and not that it was called ‘banner’.

This is not very good behaviour and little disconcerting to think this could be happening. As a MAC user I never use Norton or McAfee, so never really saw this happening.

It’s not arbitrary, most banner blocking software block images within a certain ratio, or above a certain length, say 500px x 50px or 800px by 75px, etc. I believe the width across is the primary consideration, but then height also plays some component.