Design Notes: A CSS Web Developer’s Blog

IE7 Beta Internet Connection Problem

I installed IE7 Beta and started to browse the internet. As I did, IE repeatedly dialed to connect to the internet for each item on the page. My LAN was already connected.

I told IE7 not to dial and it worked fine. Now other applications that rely in IE’s connection think they are offline. Windows Media Player will not stream because it thinks it’s offline.

It appears this is IE7’s problem because I have never experienced it before. Does anyone have a solution?

I also reported this to the good folks at the IE blog but thought I would seek an answer here as well.

Edit: A possible fix for the problem is here.

Edit: This connection problem is still preventing my error reporting agent from sending the needed reports to Microsoft. I also still have to tell IE to ignore the fact it thinks it is offline on occasion. It could be something is wrong with my connection settings, but I’m unable to find anything that should be corrected.

1 comment February 9th, 2006

How To Integrate Online and Retail Outlet Sales

A while back I was contacted by a successful retailer about the potential of eCommerce to increase their revenues and strenghten customer loyalty. Since I have a bent towards looking at things as systems rather than as components, I immediately asked questions about the store’s systems for POS and inventory management … ok, maybe I make things too complex …

Here’s where you come in. Are any of my readers using multi-channel eCommerce and bricks and morter retail outlets? What solutions have you discovered to inventory management and eCommerce that have made your job easier?

1 comment February 9th, 2006