internet-explorer

What happens to my ajax request after window unload

Hi, what happens to my syn/asyn XMLHttpRequest (IE) when the page unload but the request is still on his way? Is it meaningful to bind to the $(window).unload and call the .abort() method for my request object? The problem is that in some cases the page loads and unloads very fast and in some cases the good old IE 6 freezes for at ...

Getting unordered list in front of image slide-show in IE8, IE7 and probably IE6...

I have a simple (absolutely positioned) image slide-show that consists of a few images that rotate every few seconds. To have different areas of the changing image click-able, I also have an unordered list containing the different links, relatively positioned in order to use z-index. This works just fine in Firefox (3.6), Safari (windo...

RESTful cookie path fails in IE without trailing slash

I have been asked to build a tabbed section on pages that have RESTful URLs without a trailing slash (.NET MVC), for example http://myhost/books/the-amber-spyglass For the tabbed sections to be a bit more user friendly I want them to remember which tab was open on each page as the user moves around, so that if they return to a book the...

why http proxy is host+port

In IE when I configure http proxy I need to give host+port and not full url. Why isn't it a normal url? How to configure if the proxy uses https? ...

Strange speed problem with GoogleMaps in IE

I have simple WebSite with GoogleMaps. My GoogleMaps have mouseMove-event. All browsers everything is ok, except for IE. When I move the mouse cursor over the map - IE very much uses cpu. mouseMove-event very important for my WebSite, but because of IE it works very slowly. I google it and find same problem (Jun 26, 2006): gmap2 mousemov...

Empty div hover event not firing in IE

I have a div with a child div inside it. I'm using jQuery to show / hide the child div whenever a mouse hovers over the parent div (parent div spans the entire bottom of the page. Width: 100% and height 100px). I've used both firebug and ie developer toolbar to confirm that the parent div is on the page. I can hover over the empty paren...

Why firefox shows <object> and internet explorer shows <iframe> ?

Why if i use <object> in place for <iframe>, but IE shows <iframe> in rendered source. ...

dijit.form.select will close surrounding tooltip dialog in IE

Hi, I have encountered a strange behaviour using dijit.form.select inside a tooltip-dialog. Here's a shortened part of my code: <div id="toolbar" dojoType="dijit.Toolbar"> <div dojoType="dijit.form.DropDownButton"> <div dojoType="dijit.TooltipDialog" id="tooltip"> <input dojoType=dijit.form.TextBox type="text" id="textbox">...

Applet JAR loading fails, since the http request doesn't include a basic auth header

It's a farily simple setup. A .jar is hosted on a site which is protected by basic auth. I try to load the jar with an object tag - which works perfectly when tested without authentication. When the .jar is requested from the server, the basic auth header isn't included in the request. Why is this? ...

web proxy handling window.location redirecting

Hello, I'm working on a web proxy and I have problem when a sites is using javascript redirect by doing a window.location = "http://newurl.com"; Is there some way to intercept this and rewrite the url to this format "proxt?url=http://newurl.com" In Firefox its easy, function locationWatcher(id, oldURL, newURL) { return parseUR...

jQuery load() method memory leak?

I have hunted around for answer to this one, and though have found related quesions, I couldn't quite find an exact match for this. I have a fairly large app which is supposed to load pages into divs in another page using the jQuery.load() method. The problem I have is that when loading the same page over and over again into the same d...

width of div is effected in IE7 by contents of completely other div

Here is an example of an html page that consists of a header and a footer and a div that contains another div which contains some content: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"&gt; <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="content-type"> <title>Tes...

Asp.net site diplays differently on coworkers computer

I have an asp.net site that displays the way I want it to on my computer in IE8 and firefox. On my co-worker's computer the page content gets pushed down below the left side menu. We both have the exact same version of IE8. I'm using divs and css for positioning and a Masterpage. body { background-position: center center; fon...

Slow jQuery animation in IE

Hi, I have a site http://www.special4you.co.uk and has a animation nav made from balloons. This works and looks lovely in FF and Chrome but in all the IEs it looks pants as the animation is poor and jagged. Does anyone know why this or if it is my fault? my code is: $(document).ready(function(){ Cufon.replace('h1, p, #address, h2')...

No space between bottom of screen and footer div

I am having issues with creating a space between the bottom of the screen and the last div. In Chrome, no problems, but with IE the border is right at the bottom of the screen. <div id="container"> <div id="header">...</div> <div id="main">...</div> <div id="footer">...</div> </div> The last div only has <br />'s Here is the css....

Convert javascript for IE

I have a script that works fine in all browsers that I have tested so far (FF, Safari, camino, Chrome) but not in IE and I can't figure out why. The IE 8 (windows 7) debug utility highlights this section of the script: if(list[lineNum].getElementsByClassName("check")[0].getElementsByTagName("a")[0].getAttribute("title").search("Delete"...

What is the purpose of <meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE">?

What it does? is there any pros to add this in for all browser? ...

Is there any way to reference the system fonts and colors in Internet Explorer from HTML, CSS or MSHTML interfaces?

I want to do something like this: <style type="text/css"> body { font-family: dialog-font; /* Tahoma, Segoe UI or MS Sans Serif */ color: button-text; background-color: button-face; } </style> Are there any Microsoft-specific CSS values which provide this functionality? ...

need to disable ctrlH

i've been able to disable ctrl shift delete and also from under safety tab however, when you press ctrl h or click favourites and then history you can still delete. i need to know how to block this feature. i've tried looking on google and that tells me to DisableDeleteBrowsingHistory dword set value as 1, all what that does is blocks...

Generate HTML source code from IE DOM

Is there any way to generate HTML source code from live DOM tree in IE? The DOM may be modified by JavaScript, but I just want the final result. If I want to write a BHO to do this, which event should I handle such thing? ...