internet-explorer-8

Changes to selection and range functionality in IE8

I'm having to debug a WYSIWYYG javascript based HTML editor that is failing in IE8. It's only designed for use in IE so that should simplify the solution. Here's the existing code that is failing: function isAllowed() { var sel var obj sel = foo.document.selection if (sel.type != "Control") { ...

Does IE 8 have a limit on number of stylesheets per page?

In an answer about CSS, a user said: Internet Explorer has is said to have a limit of 4096 CSS rules per file. Reference Also, it has a limit on the number of style sheets you can embed in a single document. I think it is 20. While the reference on MSDN seems to confirm this (and there's a blog post which confirms this in IE7...

how to send keystrokes in IE8 in a particular tab using c#

Hello Experts, As microsoft have not released the tab's API, its quiet difficult for me to work around to sending keystrokes to a particular IE7/8 tab browser using c#/vb.net. I tried to get HWND(handler) of each browser's tab but its a same for all, so if its there something unique which I can get a hold on would be great. Thanks in...

jQuery + Google API + IE8 error

The following function works perfectly on our production site function flickrGetPhotos(){ $.getJSON("http://api.flickr.com/services/rest/?method=flickr.photosets.getList&api_key=" + flickrApiKey + "&user_id=" + flickrUserId + "&format=json" + "&per_page=" + galeriaSetsPerPage + "&jsoncallback=?", function(data){ flickrBuild...

fireevent for mouse events in IE gets fired at different clientPoint

Hi, I am trying to fire a mouse event in IE at a particular coordinate. All the coordinates are set right before firing the event. But when the event gets fired, the client point gets changed and gets the value same as offset point. i.e., I created a mouse event with ClientPoint = (583,438) , offset= (585,481) and screen = (585,589). Th...

Detecting IE browser version using PHP

I'm using $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] to detect user's browser. When I run the var_dump on my localhost on IE8 it returns: ...compatible; MSIE 8.0; ... But when I upload it to my host (godaddy), I get: ...compatible; MSIE 7.0; ... What's the problem? ...

vertical text in ie within a table cell

I'm trying to rotate some text cross browser within a thin table cell that spans a few rows. I want it to be a nice compact summary of the rows, which is why it is thin and rotated -90 degrees. The tips described here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/272799/vertical-rotated-text-in-html-table work like a charm except in, surprise ...

fb:serverfbml won't render on Opera and IE

Hi there, I asked the same question in Facebook developer forum, but for some reasons I want to repost it here. I hope that's okay. I have the following fb:serverfbml snippet. <fb:serverfbml id="invite_friends_form" style="width: 100%"> <script type="text/fbml"> <fb:fbml><p>Testing FBML rendering</p></fb:fbml> </script> </fb:s...

Ckeditor external font problem in IE 8

Hi I am using an external fonts for ckeditor. I have added the font face using addCss function for ckeditor content iframe and also added a css file for font listing dropdown iframe. The fonts are listing properly with font preview in font listing dropdown and style is also being added in the content writing iframe. In FF and IE 7 the fo...

IE8 Web Slices problem when using RTL orientation

Web Slice icon appears on the far right when RTL orientation is used. As a result, users can't click and subscribe to the Web Slice. Any solution for this? ...

Refresh browser (IE, FF, Opera) via C# code

I need to refresh browser via c# code and google keeps silence. Any help would be very appreciated. ...

MSIE 8 performance issues with dojo charting: dojo._getMarginBox

I have a page with 6 dojox.charting.Chart2d charts that works fine in all browsers except IE. In IE8, the charts take more than a minute to load. Profiling shows that by far the majority of the time is being consumed by dojo._getMarginBox: 57 calls takes between 48 and 66 seconds. Has anyone else got experience with this? Has anyone ...

VC++ ShowBrowserBar doesn't work on IE8

When I run this code on IE8, ShowBrowserBar returns S_OK, but the toolbar isn't shown. On IE7 it works fine. I saw a similar question here, by Anna, but without a working answer... :) Any suggestions? int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[]) { CoInitialize(0); IWebBrowser2 *pIE = NULL; // Create an instance of Internet Explorer ...

Landscape Printing from IE8

I have read http://stackoverflow.com/questions/138422/, but my problem is more specific. And before I concede defeat and consider a different career, I thought I would post here. This is my situation: I am writing a timetabling display and printing program in HTML. The user clicks various options such as room, dates etc. An AJAX call...

IE8 compatibility mode...help?

Hi, I'm trying to setup compatibility mode in one of our web products however I cannot get compatiblity mode to work via a particular server. To recount what I've done so far: I've set the the HTTP header X-UA-Compatible in IIS to IE=7 I've set also addded the meta element as the first element in the head element to the master page: ...

IE7 and IE8 dropping cookies

Hi, We've recently upgraded our production systems from Java 1.5, Apache HTTPD 1.3 and Tomcat (sorry, not sure which version) to Java 1.6, Apache HTTPD 2.2 and the latest version of Tomcat (again, sorry, not sure of the numbers). Since this upgrade, we've noticed that a (very) small percentage of traffic to our site from IE7 and IE8 dr...

Weirdest IE8 Printing issue ever!

We have two servers, a development/test server (Win Server 2008) and a live server (Win Server 2003 SP2). Same ASP.NET code base deployed to both, everything works fine Except when printing on IE 8 using the live server. The live server prints the content shifted to the right in a larger font size. I just don't get it! It is worth noti...

Any way to programmatically force IE8 to open popups in a new window instead of a tab?

Is there a way to programmatically instruct IE8 to open a popup in a new window rather than a new tab? I know that IE supports modal windows but I have a bunch of legacy code with ordinary popups. Update: I am using Javascript's window.open() method to create popup windows. However, when a user has their IE8 settings set to "Always o...

IE8 not animating jQuery menu properly

Hi all I am having a real headache. I have written a small and simple menu which employs simple animation (fade in/fade out) powered by jQuery. My issue is that the animation, when bviewed in ie8 looks awful - while the animation is running big ugly black borders are visible around the text (take a look at the link below you will see w...

On artimap.com you can search by double-clicking a word. On some ie8 it display: accelerator... Is it possible to eliminate that crappy ie8 behavior ?

var getSelectedText=function(){ var x; if(window.getSelection){x=window.getSelection();} else if(document.selection){x=document.selection.createRange();} if(x.text){x=x.text;} return x+''; // just to be sure it always return a string }; var phrase=function(s){ return s.match(/[^ \’\‘\"\'\.,;:\#\-]+/g); }; va...