internet-explorer-8

Making an IE8 Accelerator for my website

i have a file Accelerator.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <os:openServiceDescription xmlns:os="http://www.microsoft.com/schemas/openservicedescription/1.0"&gt; <os:homepageUrl>http://www.sapo.pt&lt;/os:homepageUrl&gt; <os:display> <os:name>Find on Sapo</os:name> <os:description>Find more information on Sapo<...

Silverlight 3 Browser Zoom Support, UI Stops rendering during zoom changes

Silverlight 3 now contains built in browser zoom support. The current problem I am facing is that it seems as if the Silverlight UI doesn't update (re-render) during multiple zoom level changes involving the (Ctrl+Mouse Wheel) or (Ctrl+) and (Ctrl-). This was found when testing with the IE8 browser, on a Windows XP SP2. At first I t...

IE8 CSS Absolute Positioning Random Bug

I'm encountering a frustrating but seemingly random rendering bug in IE8. I have some absolutely positioned elements on the page (positioned in relation to the page body), the displaying of which are toggled by jQuery. 8 times out of 10 the elements are rendered correctly, but sometimes the positioning is not obeyed and they are simply ...

How can I enable the FCK editor spell checker in Internet Explorer 8?

I need to enable the spell checker in FCK Editor. Its working fine with Firefox, But its not working in IE 8. My settings in fckeditor.js is, FCKConfig.SpellChecker = 'ieSpell' ; // 'ieSpell' | 'SpellerPages' FCKConfig.IeSpellDownloadUrl = 'http://www.iespell.com/download.php' ; FCKConfig.SpellerPagesServerScript = 'server-scripts/s...

PNG8 Black Border in IE

Hi Guys, I have a problem in IE with PNG8 images in that it appears with a big dirty black border in the shadowing of my *.png. (Ie7, Ie8) I am using alphatransparency and basically have shading under my small image. All browsers render this fine - except IE which renders the shading as a black circle ? I need the image "transparent" ...

What determines whether the 'Compatability View' button appears in IE8 or not?

On some sites I'm developing, I noticed that the 'Compatability View' button is shown beside the address bar. Yet when I view other websites, this button is not always available to me. What determines whether or not this button is shown to the user? Does it have to do with the <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7...

IE 7/8 CSS Menu Problem

I'm having a weird problem with my CSS drop down menu. It shows up, but it's hidden behind another element, and there is a growing space between the list items. CSS code is pretty standard: /*CSS Menu*/ #navigation li.menu ul { visibility: hidden; position: absolute; top: 40px; right: 5px; height: 15px; padding...

How to obtain process of newly created IE8 window?

When using .NET's Process.Start to run IE8's iexplore.exe, and if you already have another IE8 window open, then the iexplore.exe process that you just started will immediately exit, and its child process will attach to the main IE8 process. The result of this is your Process object will be linked to the "invoker" process that has alread...

Internet Explorer XML Ajax reply value iteration

Hi there, folks. I've already asked here a question about this issue. The thing is that I would really appreciate to get your help on this, as I can't seem to detect and solve the problem I'm having with an AJAX functionality on a site that I'm currently developing. I have a webform that makes an asynchronous call to a handler (.ashx) ...

Disabling IE8 accelerators for an entire site

(Yes, I know there is a similar question on SO, but it's 8 months old -- since then IE8 RTM has come out -- and not very illuminating) Is it possible to disable IE8's 'Accelerators' on my site? When highlighting text, I have a small popup box that appears beside the cursor (similar to Office 2007) which is being obstructed by them. I ...

IE8 - Flash Issues

Has anyone ever encountered an issue like this with Flash[as3] in IE8? I've noticed that when I first view my swf with IE8, that it all works and looks proper. However when I click refresh, a few items that use the stage.stageWidth and stage.stageHeight properties fail to function as they should. This only happens on IE, been tested...

Issue with footer in IE8

i have an issue with my footer in IE8 only. The footer itself detaches from the rest of the page almost as if there was a line break. I used this condition statement to fix it but i got nothing <!--[if !IE 8]> <style type="text/css" media="screen"> #BTM {margin-top: -10px;} <![endif]--> How do i target IE8 only? any suggestions? ...

IE8 - How can I remove extra padding from an image?

Hi, See the (image) for a clearer understanding of what's happening to the header graphic. I've added the interconnect solutions worldwide logo to the orange banner through a customized joomla module; I did this to make editing and updating easier. But this resulted in adding extra padding to the top in IE8 - it collapses and is fine ...

createTextRange - strange behavior in IE8

Hi all, I have the following problem. In text input filed which work as an auto-completer some of suggestions it returns are wither than it. The problem comes when you leave the field. In IE the text cursor is positioned on the end of the suggested string, so you can actually see only the last part of it. So I used the code bellow to fi...

What am I doing wrong with this call to document.getElementById

I have the following javascript code var myDiv = document.getElementById("myDiv"); alert(myDiv); myDiv.style.display = 'none'; the call to alert(myDiv) succesfully shows that myDiv is not null and I see that the object (the div) has all the necessary properties set etc. However, the call to myDiv.style.display = none ...

debug session ends prematurely with vs.net 2008IE8

After upgrading to IE8, I have trouble debugging my web application (using development server). When I hit a breakpoint and start stepping over the code, all of a sudden my debug session ends prematurely. Any clues whats going on, and suggestions to fix this? P.S. I have installed Silverlight Tools and chose Silverlight debugging to di...

WebBrowser control, isolation and IE8 InPrivate mode

I have a need to run some automation tasks in a web browser control but I seem to be facing a few limitations/unknowns that I'm not 100% sure how to resolve. The application I'm running is not for public release, so I can enforce a prerequisite that IE8 is installed. GeckoFX (http://geckofx.org) would be great except it does not offer m...

IE7 & IE8 Padding/margin problems

Hi, I've already posted this problem but i didn't manage to resolve the issue from the answers i received... Hopefully i will get lucky this time. I've also include all the code etc... so this should make it easy to pin point the issue. IE7 Screen shot IE8 Screen shot please see the HTML & CSS for the entire website Any help wou...

Does Selenium RC support IE8?

Can anyone confirm if Selenium RC server fully supports IE8? ...

Problem with IE8 and printing a fillable form

I have created a fillable form (html) on the intranet site at work for training. The form is a short quiz with checkboxes and text for name, date, etc. For now I am just trying to let them fill in and print the form to hand in. In IE7 it works fine, however in IE8 the text prints, but the checks in the checkboxes won't. Anyone have any ...