internet-explorer-8

Deploying Internet Explorer 8 with our custom upgrade tool

Hello, Our product is installed in Windows machines all over the world, with our latest version we need to ensure that Internet Explorer is upgraded to version 8. Is there an executable that we can distribute that will work on any windows (starting from XP and 2003) and on any language, and will ensure the correct setup is downloaded and...

How to test in IE with Linux

Normally I have two computers to work on - my development machine, running Ubuntu, and a testing machine that has Windows. The testing machine is in surgery, and I need to be able to test in IE8. Unfortunately I can't seem to get it to run under wine. I've tried the IE NetRenderer add-on for Firefox, but all it does is take a screenshot ...

jQuery later than window load

I am using Cufon.replace to font replace some text on the site. Currently in IE8 standards mode when this is run outside a $(document).ready it is only happening ~50% of the time the rest of the time the DOM changes have occurred (viewing with IE8 built in dev toolbar) but no text is displayed. Disabling the replace, and applying it man...

YUI3 selector problem in ie8

Y.one('form fieldset:nth-child(2)').toggleClass('hide'); in chrome, FF, opera this line works but in ie6-8 it throws an error 'Y.one(...)' is null or not an object. where is the problem? ...

Weird IE8 problem when using .animate({'height':'toggle'})

Check out http://wouter.howafarms.com/faq The goal is to have answers be expanded on click. As you'll see this works perfectly in all browsers except for ie8. I've tried various animation effects .slideDown(), .toggle() to no avail. They always work in Firefox, Chrome and even IE7, but never in IE8. What in the heck might be causing...

VS2010 + IE8 Debugging woes - Element not found

I am having great difficulty trying to debug with vs2010 and IE8, though I think the problem is more IE8 specific. When starting a debug session 9 times out of 10 I will have the following problem. IE tab says connecting.. - then after a 5 second wait I will get an error in VS saying element not found. Even when I click ok to dismiss the...

Why is CSS Hover Slow In IE8?

Hi there. I have a page with a jstree and/or jqgrid - it really doesn't matter which one I use to show my point, as I suspect it's any hover effect in IE8... Back to point: When hovering over an <a> tag the background-color is changed with CSS. In all browsers, including IE7 (although slightly slower - I'd guess +-300ms) there is no la...

IE8 bottom:0 in position:absolute behaves like position:fixed

I have a DIV that must always stay on bottom/left of the page, something like a footer menu. div#bottom_menu { position: absolute; z-index: 1; left: 0; bottom: 0; width: 90%; } My page has min-height defined and when the user shrinks it below that it gets scroll bars. The problem is when it happens, in IE8 the div moves up t...

JQuery Validation not work in IE8

I use a JQuery Validation script for Validating HTML Form. this is perfectly work with Firefox but not work in IE8. I think there is issue with colon(;) or semi-colon(,)...but I am unable to catch. please someone help me. code is here. <script type="text/javascript"> jQuery.validator.addMethod( "selectNone", function(value, element) ...

What Internet Explorer settings could cause IE7/IE8 to not load css?

We have received isolated reports of IE7 & IE8 not loading/parsing the css from our website built on asp.net 4 and hosted on iis 6. One user recently sent us screen shots to confirm the problem. They tried upgrading from IE7 to IE8 which did not fix the problem. Firefox installed on the same computer would load the website/css no...

Create IE Addons

I'm looking for a tutorial to make addons for IE 8 or 9. Can you provide me with a resource. Please, for the sake of peace and everything else, I already know I can make FF or Chrome addons. I want to make an IE addon. Thanks. ...

IE8 Compatibility Mode text input not clickable

When in IE8 and with Compatibility Mode turned to On, the "username" textbox in my form is not clickable, and it's not a JS issue or anything, it works fine in Safari, FF, and Opera just not IE8. <form method="post" action="" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="index_log"> <input type="text" id="em1" name="em1" maxlength="320" class="re...

Developing applications for IE 8

Anyone know of any good references for building applications for IE 8? I found this http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430228539 (but not yet released) for example: I would like to build a simple toolbar app that records visited websites. That possible? Or are they other suggestions on how to build this type of application? ...

WMV not playing in IE 8 or Chrome

Hello, I'm having trouble embedding a WMV file into a page for a client's site. Well, it plays in every browser except for IE 8 and Chrome. Apparently, the player shows the first frame, the desktop, or just black, but it never plays the movie. Here's the site: http://centerwest.com/ (click on the link at the bottom right that says "time...

forcing a dom rerender in ie8

I've tried all of the classic ie tricks to get my webpage to rerender the changes that have been made in the dom but nothing has worked. I've already tried element.className = element.className; as well as accessing some part of the dom I changed but that doesn't work either. Here's my code. Onload the body calls queryDB and in the ...

IIS6 with IE8 not loading ASP.NET MVC site properly

This is odd, and I hope I explain it correctly. When I debug locally with VS2008, IE8 looks like FF and Chrome (minus the obvious). It works well, and I'm happy. When I use IE8 with our IIS6 box (Win2003) or Cassini, buttons aren't aligned, javascript errors occur, and some other CSS anomolies occur: Table cells missing colored bor...

Rendering Problem in IE8 with richFaces and JSF empty text node

I have a form of the following type: <rich:dataList var="var" value="#{bean}" styleClass="styleClass"><h:form> <h:commandLink value="#{var.prop}" action="#{bean.action}"> <a4j:actionparam name="var" value="#{var.id}" assignTo="#{bea.sel}" /> </h:commandLink> Now, this is all fine in Firefox and IE 7. However, in IE 8 it cre...

PrototypeJS causes jQuery ui's slider widget to fail in IE8. Is there a workaround?

I am using jQuery UI's slider widget, and if the prototype js library is also included on the page, I find the following incorrect behavior in IE8 (other browsers are fine): While hovering over the handle, pressing and holding the mouse button causes the handle to immediately jump to the bottom of the slider. Attempting to drag does n...

Preparing To Make Website Internet Explorer 8 Compatible

I have just taken over maintenance of a large web application which is over 10,000 lines of Javascript. At the moment it runs on Firefox 3.5+, Safari 4+ and Chrome and I have to make it work with IE8. I am a very experienced programmer but I only have a little Javascript experience - although I have been introduced to the dubious pleas...

IE 8 & 9 not resizing container when width set in image.load

To see the issue go to this page and click the next text. The small, medium fullsize text will be off to the left (in IE8 or IE9, works fine in Chrome, FireFox) and will not be aligned with the left edge of the image. Code (http://moments.qa.chucksoft.com/Scripts/mvc/views/show/Showview.js) Line 154: ShowView.prototype.setImageSrc...