internet-explorer

jQuery Coda Slider IE 6,7 Crashing when switching tabs...I hate IE...

First off, I would just like to mention my absolute hatred of Internet Explorer and the grief it is causing me. Okay, so I have am using a Coda slider for a clients website, located at: www.onlineuticacollege.com/david Here is my declarations for my Coda Slider. <script src="tabbed-bottom-nav/js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js" type="text/javas...

What are my options for accessing the user's GPS device in a desktop browser?

After reading about Firefox's Geolocation functionality, which doesn't use GPS, I'm wondering what it would take for a browser (IE and/or Firefox) to be able to access a GPS device connected to a normal laptop/desktop computer? So far the only technology I've found that seems to be able to do this is Google Gears' Geolocation API or dev...

Can I write a single-tab web application using IE8?

My collegues facing one problem with IE8. they have one page for Product selection. now if user opens the page and selected one product as well as its some properties.. then he/she opes a new tab with same page... and selects a new product then the session used for page is shared by both the tab pages... so, can anybody provide solution...

Getting rid of jQuery/CSS IE slideUp flash?

I have a very simple script that slides a message down from the top of the page, then slides it back up after a few seconds. Works fine in FireFox, Chrome, etc, but in IE (6 through 8), after the slideUp completes the div appears at full size for just a moment before disappearing, creating a nasty flash. Any ideas on how to get rid of th...

Writing file to users giving sporadic error in IE

I have a very interesting issue with only specific IE implementations. I have an ASPX page that is used to write files down to the user, as part of the process the page uses the following code to write the file to the user. Response.Clear(); Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=download" + System.IO.Path.GetEx...

jeditable performance in IE

I am seeing very poor page set-up time in IE using jeditable. The page has a table in which each row has 13 span elements to which jeditable is applied as follows: $(document).ready(function() { $('#entry_pl span.ples').editable('my_xhr.php', { placeholder: '<span class="placeholder">unset</span>', indicator: '<img src...

Current tab in IE 6 horizontal list navigation stretching to fill rest of div

I'm currently working on getting my top nav to work in IE 6 - my site is located here. The tabbed item is the "current" selected menu, and its width is stretching to fill the rest of the space... what should I do to fix this without fixing the width, but setting it in some way that it doesn't expand like this? Thanks! ...

IE 5.5 Float Drop in css div layout

Hi, I'm testing a site for a friend and I've got it to work in all browsers, except IE 5.5 (Looks great in Adobe Browser Lab for all Browsers.) You may ask why I care about IE 5.5 - well I'm pretty familiar with IE 5.5 bugs (especially the bug where it counts borders and padding inside the space it needs to display an element) and can ...

Internet Explorer @font-face is failing

I'm trying to get Internet Explorer to render my pretty fonts. It's not working. They work fine in Firefox and I can see in my Apache access logs that IE has pulled the fonts. So it's parsing the font-face CSS tag, just not rendering them. The site I used to convert the fonts was: http://www.kirsle.net/wizards/ttf2eot.cgi. I tried that ...

Problem with clear in IE

Hi, I want to list name/value pair and i am using dl list for this It should display like this name1 value1 name2 value2 <dl> <dt>Name1</dt> <dd>Value1</dd> <dt>Name1</dt> <dd>Value1</dd> </dl> dl dt,dl dd{ display:block; float:left; margin:.5em 1.5em 0 0; } dl dt{ width:9em; clear:left; } In I...

ActiveX Print a web page

I would like to find or write an Internet Explorer ActiveX control that will allow me to print a web page to a specific printer without a dialog box. The problem that I am having is that this particular page needs to print to a label printer with very specific orientation properties. Can anyone get me started? Thanks. ...

issue opening htm files with internal link from command line

Hello all, I'm trying to open a help file from within my java application. I am able to do so using the line: Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] {strPath, strUrl} ); where strPath is the path to IEXPLORE.EXE and strURL is my help file path. However, when I pass a help file with an internal link that contains a space (such as "c:....

rich:datatable and expandable column with internet explorer

I created a simple solution for expandable columns/rows with rich:datatable and rich:column, which is similar to: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/358840 The facelets code is (simplified) as follows: <rich:dataTable id="detailtable" value="#{bean.model}" var="row" columns="2"> <rich:column id="detail-check"> <...

IE Cache Settings

What does the following IE cache setting do: "every time i visit the webpage" Does it cause the browser to ignore the Expiration and other Cache related http headers? Is it at the webpage (address URL level) or is it for every object loaded by the browser (say an image url referenced in the html of the page)? ...

Regex behaving differently in IE6/IE7

My HTML is something like this : <select> <option>ABC (123)</option> <option>XYZ (789)</option> </select> What I'm trying to do is: using JQuery and a regex, I replace the "(" with <span>( here's my JQuery line: $(this).html($(this).html().replace(/\(/g,"<span>(")); It's working as intended in Firefox, chrome and safari, ...

Catching a custom javascript exception with window.onerror - in IE

I have a custom exception class which I'm using for a particular situation. It could be thrown from anywhere so try/catch isn't really practical. throw new CustomException; I want to catch this error in window.onerror and filter it out, which works fine in most browsers I've tested so far. var window_onerror = window.onerror || func...

Session cookies across browser processes

Is it possible to use session cookies across browser sessions (specifically Internet Explorer). I would like a user to log in to my site and therefore get a cookie and when the user opens another IE process have that session cookie authenticate the user. At the moment it is find if the user opens a new window or tab as this resides in t...

Text shadow in IE, alternatives

I have a need for text-shadow for inline, long, paragraph text in IE. I understand progressive enhancement, but the situation is different. I do absolutely need text-shadow, it's not a design issue, but a matter central to the function of my app. In any case, IE does not support CSS text-shadow. What are some alternatives? I know that s...

jQuery1.3.2 change multiple same name class only use css(name, value) method. don't use css(name)

looking at the snippet. If you want to use jQuery css method change class LabelHeader both IE and FF, you only use each mehtod + css(name,value). $("document").ready(function() { var cssObj = { 'width': '500px', 'height': '460px' } var cssLabelHeader = { '...

prettySociable IE issues..

I'm trying to use the jQuery script prettySociable, which works fine in all other browsers except for IE - am using IE 8 and have tried testing it in compatibility mode to no avail. I've tried to figure out the errors, but can't seem to get them to work.. http://www.souliejolie.com/2010/test.php ^^ the 'demo' page which craps out in IE...