When Microsoft and Internet Explorer Collide!

When Microsoft and Internet Explorer Collide!

Being the new kid on the block with the whole blogging concept, I’ve had a few glitches and issues but nothing that was a real problem that I couldn’t recognize and work through. I was under this “illusion” that everything was running perfectly, until received a comment on one of my posts.

You might not use Microsoft software to blog next time - Internet Explorer pukes on it if you didn’t notice.
Chris Pirillo

I have to admit that at first the message really didn’t “click” in my mind. I had looked at every one of my posts after I had published them to make sure everything looked and sounded the way I desired it to. Then having one of those “Duh” moments, and quickly switched from my default browser of Firefox, to Internet Explorer 7. To my amazement a jumble of code had invaded all my posts, except the one I had not written in Microsoft Word. Then changing back to Firefox, once again my posts look perfect.

After a couple hours of house cleaning I’m hoping that all the “excess code” has finally been eradicated. Sorry if you were in the process of reading something and half the post disappeared or something of the nature, but everything should be fine now. As for people who are planning to, or using Microsoft Word (In my case was 2007), then copying the content directly over to publish, you may be experiencing the invasion of code I did, and not even know it. I found an easy solution to the issue, which is to simply copy your content over to notepad before recopying to do your final publish. This should help avoid the “puke” that Internet Explorer injected all over my work.

Thanks again to Chris Pirillo for pointing out this issue for me and now the community, and if anyone else has any other tips, tricks, or helpful information to “the new kids of the blog” please post it below.