internet-explorer-8

GWT & IE8 cause a very laggy table-behavior

Hello everyone, I've yet another question. I'm working with GWT 2.0.4 and IE8 as well as FireFox (the latter only for comparison purpose). My application needs to load data and show it inside a table. There are about 60 columns and 150 rows to show. Since the loading is dynamic - as soon as a dataset has been fetched, it's added to the...

google analytics creates broken links for IE8

We have been successfully running a Django site for a couple of years. We use the following (standard) google analytics code for most of our pages. <script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-XXXXXXX-X']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga...

TinyMCE - IE8 Error

I'm testing my page in a bunch of browsers and in IE 8 i get the following error: Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E) Timestamp: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 20:03:46 UTC Message: Invalid arg...

Possible effects of writing large byte arrays to an output stream?

private static void writeData( byte[] file, HttpServletResponse response ) throws IOException { .... // Send the data response.setContentLength(file.length); response.getOutputStream().write(file); } Recently, I've found in IE8 that some connections close while requesting files to download. This is the relevant piec...

Which MIME type should I use to serve XHTML5 to IE7 and IE8?

I want to use XHTML5 but apparently they two browsers don't accept the application/xhtml+xml MIME type. I read that they will accept text/xml (or application/xml not sure) but it is kind of hackish. So I was wondering if I should just serve HTML5 to IE7 and IE8? Please don't go on talking about XHTML vs HTML advantages. I know. ...

IE7 / IE8 Non Background Image Flickering

I am currently developing a site that users the jQuery superfish plugin to construct a 3 level deep drop down menu with rounded corners, drop shadows and all of that other head banging, screen smashing, anger inciting stuff us web developers love. The client is using IE8, and IE7 as well. At the end of each menu, I am placing a 24bit ro...

Facebook Login/Like Fail on IE8

I've recently implemented Facebook Login button and a Facebook "Like" button using XFBML. You can see the site on http://colnect.com Everything works well with FireFox, Chrome, Opera & Safari. However, IE doesn't show neither "login" or "like" buttons and no error message is available as well. Any ideas? ...

How do I get IE7 to emulate IE8 ?

I am wondering if I can get an IE7 browser to render as IE8. I know this is backwards compatible by adding a META tag <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" /> Does anybody have any ideas? ...

How to get a DIV to be the correct width in IE8?

This sounds pretty simple, but I am stuck. I need to set a DIV to be 434 pixels wide in IE8. The following is my code. This works in FF, but IE8 always renders the DIV with a width of 414 pixels. Why does it chop off 20 pixels? <html> <head> <style type="text/css"> #box { width:434px; background-color:red...

How can i set the name of IE Extension (BHO In IE)

How Can i Set the Name of the BHO appear in IE Extension (e.g Manage Addons).. The Name that Appear in the Internet Explorer Addons list is the Namespace of my program when i attach it with regasm.exe. how can i set the name of that.?... Thanks. ...

HUGE Internet Explorer 8 bug with display: table

I have the weirdest bug ever... I'm experimenting with display: table, and my proof of concept works on the very first try after opening a new process, but any subsequent reloading of the page breaks the design. Here is the simple HTML page: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/...

Internet Explorer: Issue with Overlay / opacity

I'm trying to create a dialog window using the following CSS: #blackOverlay { display: block; position: fixed; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; background-color: #000000; -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=80)"; filter: alpha(opacity=80); -moz-opacity: 0.8; ...

white background problem in IE

Hello, Open up this site in IE8: http://www.bavarianblue.com See the white background? Any ideas what is causing that? I tried assigning a clear gif to it, and nothing changed. Works great in Chrome and FF Help please : ) ...

Why does jScrollPane work in every 'modern' browser except IE8?

I have put in the new jScrollPane, and I've gotten my scrollbars to work on every browser except IE8! Same thing happened with the old version as well. I keep getting this error: Webpage error details User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0) Timestamp: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:14:38 UTC Message: Invalid ...

html table border always appears in IE8

I am rendering a html table using javascript & jQuery. The aim is to show a colored box (table with colored td) if there is a color supplied by parameter. If not then show nothing (so i am showing empty table with  ). But for both these cases I do not want to show any border. I want a flat color box / empty white box. if (colors == null...

How to force a pop-up to open in a new window while (Always open pop-ups in new tab) is checked?

Currently, under IE8 and in IE7, using javascript window.open and target param is set to _blank, and while (Always open pop-ups in new tab) is checked, the pop up will open in new tab. Is there a way to force the new pop up to open in a new window from javascript? Is there a solution other than javascript? Thanks ...

IE not printing disabled radio button's selection

I have a set of radio buttons that are all disabled, and one of them is selected. In IE8, when I print the web page, the selected radio button is not showing as selected. However, this works fine in FireFox. Any ideas? ...

YUI Datatable failing in IE for large datasets

I have a DataTable and DataSource (YUI 2.6). The XHRDataSource connects to an XML producing address which is a servlet, where I write the XML out onto the response via the PrintWriter. Servlet: String data = dataProvider.fetch(request.getPathInfo()); int cLen = data.length(); response.getWriter().append(data); response.setContentLengt...

internet explorer 8 and issue with calling external scripts in https

Hi, Is there some sort of issue between internet explorer 8 and referencing external scripts outside the domain when using https. I used script from to lookup addresses using postcodes etc. using the script from http://www.postalcodeanywhere.com/. A button shows up in Firefox to do the address lookup but it does not show in IE 8. The sc...

IE Postbacks Fail After a Few Seconds When Connecting to ASP.Net 4.0 in Localhost.

I noticed an odd problem when developing a web site project on localhost using ASP.Net 4.0, IIS 7.0, and IE8. Postbacks do not work after the page has been idle for a few seconds, like 30 seconds or less. If I load the page, enter some data, and click the submit button immediately, the postback works perfectly, but if I let the page si...