"Microsoft" logo

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hussain said:
When I visit microsoft.com .. "Microsoft" logo doesn't
appear at the Left-Top of the page, why???
look at this pic and see the location of the hidden logo
http://hussaindo.jeeran.com/untitled.JPG
please help me


Use the Privacy Report (Alt-V,v) to see a list of images from that page.
Unfortunately you can't capture the URLs from there but what you may
be able to do is use View Source (Alt-V,c) on the page itself and find
a piece of a URL that looks promising. In this case that would be
masthead
So doing a find for masthead in the source I found
/library/toolbar/3.0/images/banners/ms_masthead_ltr.gif
Now going back to look at the Privacy Report I can see that the only
thing missing to make it a complete URL is conveniently enough the
same domain name that we used to launch the page in the first place.
So let's delete the trailing slash from it and append the part I found:
http://www.microsoft.com/library/toolbar/3.0/images/banners/ms_masthead_ltr.gif

but before pressing Enter let's set Work Offline to see if the image was
cached. Apparently so! (Otherwise click on Connect in the resulting
prompt to both reset Work Offline and fetch the image (hopefully).
The reason I say "hopefully" is that there is no guarantee that you will be
successful fetching individual images from the server, especially not
without a Referer: URL. Fetching images from the cache is much more
reliable provided they are there.)

Now set Work Offline again (if the image wasn't in the cache)
and use Back (e.g. press Alt-CursorLeft).
Do you see the whole page properly now after all that?

If not first of all tell us if you have the same URL.
Then you're going to have to go deeper into the source.
E.g. see if you have something different from this whole fragment:

<td id="brandBanner" bgcolor="0A6CCE"><a href="">
<img src="/library/toolbar/3.0/images/banners/ms_masthead_ltr.gif"
width="136" height="42" alt="Microsoft Home" title="" border="0" />
</a></td>
<td width="100%" style="filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Gradient(startColorStr='#0A6CCE', endColorStr='#FFFFFF',
gradientType='1')">&nbsp;</td>

I'm just including that last table element with the Gradient for context.
I think that the masthead appears to be independent of it.
In fact we could prove that by disabling "Binary and Script Behaviors"
but I think that to do that would require a restart of the iexplore.exe
process so I will leave that test for you to do if you wish.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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