Thursday 16 September 2010

Whatblock 2.0 not working in Internet Explorer?

Can anyone else confirm the following for me?

In internet explorer when I have no external internet content filtering in place whatsoever, whatblock2.0 is never able to load a selection of the favicon.ico files from a few websites in-page.

The following favicon.ico files don't load:
  • http://rewiredstate.org/favicon.ico
  • http://icanhascheezburger.com/favicon.ico
  • http://sourceforge.net/favicon.ico
  • http://flickr.com/favicon.ico
  • http://ted.com/favicon.ico
  • http://miniclip.com/favicon.ico
  • http://wordpress.com/favicon.ico
It is ALWAYS these 7 favicon.ico files which fail to load in Internet Explorer, however when I open the favicon.ico files individually in Internet Explorer (by just typing http://.../favicon.ico into the address bar), they load - so it's not as-if the files don't exist or IE9 can't cope with the icons themselves. WhatBlock2.0 works in Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox perfectly well. Can anyone tell me what's going on here?

To test, go to http://dev.dfey.org/whatblock2 - accept the terms, put in an institution name and then click to test your internet content filter. If the same happens to you (or doesn't happen to you) I would really appreciate knowing - don't forget to mention which version of Internet Explorer you're using!

I'm really hoping we can get this sorted as Internet Explorer is the main browser we need WhatBlock2.0 to be working in!

Thanks

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Same problem observed in IEs 5.5, 6, 7 and 8