The Real Blogger Status

We have a small but vocal group of blog owners, in Blogger Help Forum: Get Help with an Issue , who report that they are unable to use Post Editor, to upload photos. When trying, they get an error Do you want to open or save resumable (1.61kb) from www.blogger.com? Right now, it appears that the problem is common to older versions of Internet Explorer.

For several weeks, we've seen a steady stream of problem reports, in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken , about the latest monolithic error in Blogger history. bx-hg9hg2 From several conversations with Blogger Support, it now appears that this latest error code (and a few similar ones) is related to Internet Explorer, and the use of Compatibility View . Apparently, Blogger Engineering has finally updated Blogger so it is compatible with Internet Explorer V11 - and having done so, has made it incompatible with V11 using Compatibility View.

In 2011, Blogger announced their new browser support policy . Starting next month Blogger.com will only support modern browsers. This change, while seemingly dismissive and terse, appears to be necessary . With some browsers, however, a two version (the newest version, plus the version in use right now) support policy will cause problems. Support for Internet Explorer updates will provide a challenge, for several reasons. Each new version of Internet Explorer includes many changes, which makes the new version extremely incompatible with previous versions. With the scope of the version changes being so broad, it takes Blogger Engineering longer to update Blogger code, to support the new versions. The longer it takes Blogger Engineering to update Blogger to support each new IE version, the more blog owners are likely to accept the new version onto their computers - and to find that they now can’t use Blogger, because it’s not supported. This month, Blogger Engineering, in addition ...

Back when Internet Explorer V8 was first released by Microsoft, and Blogger had yet to update their code to allow for its peccadilloes, some Blogger blog owners used the Internet Explorer "Compatibility View" switch , to make their browsers work with Blogger (when they were using the Blogger "Classic" GUI). We've recently been seeing an increasing number of people in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken , using Internet Explorer, who report problems with The New GUI .

Some time ago, Microsoft deployed the latest version of their browser, Internet Explorer Version 9. Blogger blog owners and readers alike are starting to use IE V9 on their computers - and recently, we've started to see hints in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken , indicating that Blogger may not be up to date in allowing for its unique requirements. Since I loaded Internet Explorer 9 on my computer, my Stats sits loading ... forever. and I can't publish any more. It just sits there spinning! In retrospect, and were I not professional in my advice, I would simply say I told you so!