browser-compatibility

Sliding Doors Technique - Browser Compatibility

I am using the sliding doors technique to style buttons on a site I'm making and it seems to be working within Chrome but the background is not displaying for any other browser. My code for the button is below: <div class="small-white"><a href="#">Done Reading</a></div> CSS: .small-white { float:left; background:url(images/small-...

Internet Explorer 6 and Big companies

Why big companies and even US government still have Internet Explorer 6 as their recommended browser? I'm working at Cisco Systems and their recommended browser is IE6 which makes my life, as a web developer, miserable. I have to spend three times more time debugging problems for IE6 than for any other browsers and I think that they (my ...

weird CSS behaviour

I installed a template on blogger, but it's not showing the background image. in the main blog here you can see that there is no background image (the orange one) now visiting this one which is the blog I do test the template on first, shows normally the background. the weird result is that if you go back to the first website now and ...

Is it time to start developing with HTML5?

From searching SO, this question was already asked, almost a year ago now. So now with the new FF, Opera, IE, is it finally time to start developing sites with HTML5 or is it still a little premature and will cause compatibility issues? Is using HTML5 just going to require us to use more and more JS on websites to 'trick' older browse...

Which javascript library has the best browser backward compability?

I'm working at an internet retailer that has a very wide range of users. We are very, very traditional and have not until recently actually started considering using JavaScript for real on our web site. In our case, IE6 is [unfortunately] a fact. We have a firm belief that purchasing items should not be JavaScript dependent. Though, we d...

Lightbox to implement album in a web application.

We are trying to implement a lightbox based album viewer in our web application. However, we are struggling to get it working for IE. Can you please suggest the remedy? It would be great if you can suggest some other alternatives for implementing the picture slide show for album too. ...

ASP.NET Ignores IE7 Compatibility Mode Tag in Web.config

I have the following section in my Web.config file <system.webServer> <!-- For now..... lets be safe and put IE8 in IE7 compatibility mode--> <httpProtocol> <customHeaders> <clear /> <add name="X-UA-Compatible" value="IE=EmulateIE7" /> </customHeaders> </httpProtocol> </system.webServer> but ...

IE not loading the whole page HTML source code

My blog loads normally on Google Chrome and FireFox, but not on IE, when viewing the source code I figured out that it stops reading html at a certain amount. at the end of the source code I find this </script> <div class='clear'></div> <span class='widget-item-control'> <span class I agree it's a big webpage (the last line is 1338) ...

Best way to solve the 'padding' css problem

<div style='width:500px; height:500px; padding:50px;'> </div> As the behaviors of 'padding' on IE and Firefox are different. What is the best way to solve this problem? ...

Vertical menu using :hover breaks in IE

http://www.thelisthq.net/datetest.php If you view the page in firefox, chrome, or ie 8 with compatibility mode off the vertical menu works fine. My tactic was to float the whole menu to the right and reverse the bullets (bullets on the right). If you view it in earlier versions of ie it breaks. I can't think of how to fix this, I tried ...

General Browser display statistics

I need to come up with some figures on browser display (resolution) statistics. Obviously there is W3 Schools, however they state that these are results from their site and is biased towards tech savvy users. Does anyone know of some stats that are more general in nature? They need to be credible. ...

document.setAttribute

Can this be used to change CSS? Cant see much on w3 about it. Anyone know anything about it. If this forum/site isnt the place for asking browser standard questions, can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks --Mark ...

problem using AJAX call in IE6 and IE7 -- I am asking the same question again, cause i did not get any solution before

I have this code, which is working fine in FireFox, chrome and IE8 but is it not working on IE6 and IE7. function GetXmlHttpObject() { //var xmlHttp = null; try { xmlHttp = new XMLHttpRequest(); } catch (e) { try { xmlHttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); } catch (e) { xmlHttp = new ActiveXObject("Mic...

“text-decoration” and the “:after” pseudo-element, revisited

I'm re-asking this question because its answers didn't work in my case. In my stylesheet for printed media I want to append the url after every link using the :after pseudo-class. a:after { content: " <" attr(href) ">"; text-decoration: none; color: #000000; } In Firefox (and probably Chrome but not IE8), text-decoration:...

CSS3 Layout Module Browser Support

I'm trying to figure out which browsers currently (natively) support the CSS3 layout module. Basically, I'm developing for a specific environment where I can specify what browsers to use, and CSS3 will speed up development times, so hey - why not? What I'm specifically talking about is body { display: 'aaa' 'bcd'; } ...

alternative to page-break-inside:avoid because of compatibility issues

Hi I have a php file with 's and the things in the div should stay on one page, for this possebillity i found this: http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_print_pagebi.asp However like you can see its only compatible with opera and nothing more. I dont want to demand my users to use opera so I was wondering if there was a alternative to the...

How can I help killing IE6?

Hi All, I'm fed-up supporting all the strange behaviors of the IE6 browser, so I'm wondering how, as a web developer, can I help killing IE6. Should I just stop supporting it? I think there is still a big mass of pepole that use it for various reasons. Maybe show IE6 users a special message that asks them to upgrade and hope it would ...

Printing a hidden iFrame in IE.

This solution works fine in Firefox 3.0+, but IE8/7 is just printing the entire page, not the specific iframe. This is the function that gets called when the print link is clicked: var printfunc= function(){ var url = http://someurl.aspx; //This iFrame has style="visibility: hidden; position: absolute; left: -9000px;" var printIF...

What is Microsoft up to next with Internet Explorer?

Hi, Just working away with CSS/HTML and wondering when I might "hope" to see a new IE or increased support for CSS3 and HTML5. I can't find anything about futher developments on Trident/IE apart from the mention of the Gazzelle Can anyone point me to somewhere with information on the continued development of Internet Explorer, post the...

Why is the homepage on JonathansCorner.com displaying oddly on mobile Safari?

On my website at http://JonathansCorner.com/, the site as a whole displays well in mobile Safari, and the homepage displays well on (desktop) Firefox, Opera, Safari, and IE, but the homepage specifically does not look at all good on mobile Safari:itdisplaysonewordperline,stretchingoutthetextvertically. I've tried several things to see i...