A web site run by a friend was only being displayed as plain text on my home
computer; all images (mostly .gif) were stripped out. This meant I didn’t
see the menu bar, links or formatted text boxes. I tracked it down to the IE
security setting “Binary and Script Behaviors” in “ActiveX controls and
plug-ins” section, which was set to disabled on my PC. What puzzles me
though is that there was no indication that any content was not being
displayed. The bottom left-hand corner said ‘done’, not ‘done with errors’
as it does on most web sites that can’t display all content; there were no
red crosses or empty boxes; nothing to indicate that what I was seeing was
not correct.
Can anybody explain in layman’s terms (I’m not an HTML expert !) what the
Binary and Script behaviors setting does in terms of displaying content, and
why I wouldn’t see any kind of error generated. The web site is for a
business so I need to explain to the person who set it up what is happening
as other people may be seeing the web site as I was seeing it, which isn’t
what he would want.
