I had a really weird experience today when doing a demo of some things i had been working on.
All my development work has been on a local IIS server, using http://localhost.
The demo was running, pointing to http://mysystemname/ - and the weirdest thing happened. IE began to ignore the CSS... I am now back on my machine and if I switch from "localhost" to "mysystemname" i can reproduce it.
The really strange thing is that the CSS is getting pulled down from what i can tell. Using the developer tools, for example, I can see that a particular dropdown should be styled with a gray border (#bbb 1px solid) and a 2px padding. Looks great on localhost. No styling on "mysystemname".
Also some other divs on the page are missing their margins and thus are all crunched together, though the developer tools report that they should ...
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