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12/2: Visio and IE7 don’t play well together

I wrote a Domino Content Management System last year that is used to store Quality Management information.  Much of the content is flow charts that have been drawn in Visio 2003.  The Save As Web Page option was used within Visio to create the files that would be viewed in the browser.  This worked fine with IE6.

Along comes IE7 and this breaks.  Great this compatibility isn't it when Microsoft's new web browser won't work with their own latest Visio product.  Aparently it will be fixed with Visio 2007 but no patch to Visio 2003 has arrived yet as far as I know.

I will have to devise a fix to all the existing content prior to my client upgrading their browser -- although I'm not sure upgrading is the right verb to use.

Maybe I'm spoilt working with Lotus Notes/Domino where applications written ten years ago still work just fine.  Isn't that what customers should expect?

Anyway, here's a link with a good explanation of how to fix the data.