internet-explorer-8

Javascript top variable in IE8

I am trying to reference a javascript function in a .js file loaded in my main page from an iframe using the 'top' variable. It works in FF, Safari, and IE6 but not in IE8. The snippet is (assigned to onmouseover): top.set_image(this, 'images/login_h.png') Where set_image is my function. The error is "Object does not support t...

Why do Excel and IE8 give an error when viewing XML with an ë in it?

Maybe this is an encoding issue? I can't imagine that you have to replace every non standard character. Example XML: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <client> <achternaam>Erriëns</achternaam> </client> With or without the first line doesn't matter. Error in IE8: The XML page cannot be di...

Can an IE8 Accelerator be made to launch a process?

I want to create an IE8 Accelerator that will launch Remote Desktop (mstsc) with the hostname being the selected text. But the accelerators I've seen only direct the browser to URLs. Can an Accelerator launch mstsc.exe? ...

.png images display in IE8 alone but not inside a page

Hi It's been a while since I did serious web development. Now I meet a host of brand new problems I'm no longer familiar with.. I have some .png images for various icons in my web page. What I find is that whenever I edit these images, they stop working inside a page in IE8. That is, they (usually) display OK when I first open the page...

Looking for JS project that make IE6 compatible with IE7/IE8 tech

Browsing here I've found a JS that if using IE6 can make it suport PNG transparence and also make things appear in the right place on the screen! It's almost like turning IE6 into older version of FF, the thing is I've lost the link, it is on "google code" but I can't seem to find it again if someone could kindly can post it again, I'll ...

jQuery hover and fadeTo effect is slow in IE 8

I've been developing my website in both Firefox and IE 8. There's an image hover effect on the main page (as well as in the photography and drawing sections). You can see the code in the source at http://www.dgendill.com. In Firefox, the effect works perfect. In IE 8, it works, but it's much, much slower. Here's what I've tried to i...

IE8 will report error about for in without declaring var item?

Like : var result = eval('(' + response + ')'); var html = value = ''; for(item in result) { } response is a json response. It stops at for.. in IE8. How to fix that? EDIT I got the same error when running: result = [1,2,3]; for(item in result) { ... } ...

Is this a IE8 or jQuery's bug?

<option> doesn't respond click/contextmenu events in IE8? Here is all the code to verify it locally: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="...

Visual Studio 2010 Debugger over-running IE

I recently got the beta IDE from Microsoft (Visual Studio 2010) but only got it for Visual Basic, but the Debugger keeps blocking me from downloading things like Adobe Flash Player, and won't allow me to run ActiveX add-ons (on Internet Explorer 8)... is there a way to turn off the debugger from running in IE8, or just all-together shut...

Flash On IE8 Problem

Please help! I'm designing an HTML website and added an animated Flash image using the object tag. I was handcoding on Dreamweaver and before I saved it I got this message asking me if the code should be modified for compatibility with IE8. So I just clicked on 'Yes' and a 'script' folder was generated. The Flash image appears on Firef...

How do I get around access denied when trying to view the parent of an IFRAME

So I have this craptastic code that I inherited and an insane client as well. This program uses IFRAMES to emulate AJAX like calls since the previous dev could not be bothered to just do AJAX. Anyway, the problem is, is that the app calls a javascript that then sets the source of the IFRAME to some dynamic javascript. Okay, now at the...

Jquery slideToggle problem in IE8 only using lists

Hello everyone, I am quite new to Jquery and for the first time tried to use slideToggle to create some dropdowns. A few of them are stacked on top of each other and when one is clicked, all others should collapse. I am sure my code isn't ideal since i'm just starting out, but everything works fine except in IE8. In IE8, the space bet...

IE8 Windows 7 (64bit) security certificate problem

Hi, We have just received some new computers for use in the office (Dell Vostro). They seem to work fine in the main. When we use IE8 to go to some web pages such as yahoo mail it tells us: “There is a problem with this websites security certificate” If we have a look at the details it says: “This certificate cannot be verified up ...

jquery click() not fired in ie8

Hey everybody, I'm not a javascript professional so I can't solve the following code alone. I have a delegate function which works fine in IE7. The Problem in IE8 I figuered out is the last jquery-function click(). Does anybody know how I can solve this for IE 8 thank you in advance. <script type="text/javascript"> function LightboxD...

IE8 - JavaScript dropdown onchange calling "role()" cause an error.

I am actually debugging an application for IE8 (after IE6, IE7 now IE8). I went received a bug in one of my interface when we were doing an action on a dropdown and I wondered why it wasn't happening before. I finally found out that a drop down (or a select) calling a method named "role()" directly wasn't supported. Does anyone know wh...

Dojo 1.4 - IE 8 dojox.charting label not shown -> dojox.gfx

Hey guys, I have a problem concerning dojox.charting, after updating to the new version of dojo IE 8 doesn't show the labels of my charts anymore. Seems to be a dojox.gfx text problem. See with IE8: http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release-1.4.0/dojo-release-1.4.0/dojox/gfx/tests/test_text.html Any idea how to fix that? Cheers -jstr ...

Jquery problems in IE8

Jquery runs fine in Safari and Firefox. In IE8 (using the Developer Tools), I get the error: "Could not get the position property. Invalid argument jquery-1.3.2.js, line 12 character 12949". Using debugging, the script highlights the characters {J[G]=K}. I have no idea what this does, but it seems to cause the problem! The result is whe...

Why won't IE css fix work for internet explorer8? ie statement end if

Hi I've applied an ie fix for my site but it doesn't work for ie8. Do I have to be more specific? <!--[if IE]> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/AEBP_Homepage_12887/css/ie.css" /> <![endif]--> Thanks for your help Regards Judi ...

jQuery rounded corners + focus() in IE8

Hello I am developing a web application in ASP.NET MVC. I have recently added rounded corners using the jQuery Rounded Corners plugin (http://plugins.jquery.com/project/corners). This seems to have upset IE8 (but not 6 or 7, or Firefox) because I can no longer set the focus in $(document).ready(). Here is an example of the problem: ...

IE8 on Localhost really slow - Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari all fast on the same - why?

I have some pages on my local machine, accessed via localhost, that are horribly slow to open/load using IE8, but very fast using Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari. They used to load really quickly using IE7. I produced a cut down page to test - to see what was causing the problem - and seriously, the most simple page possible causes i...