internet-explorer

Adobe Reader unable to open downloaded file in IE6

I'm working on a web app that allows users to downloaded dynamically generated PDF files. This works fine in IE8 and Firefox but fails in IE6 with Adobe Reader giving the message "there was an error opening this document. this file cannot be found" If I save the file to disk first then it opens fine in Reader. I've given the file a ...

Add to Trusted Site

What we did: We have created an activex which installs through the web browser into client machine What are the Problems facing now? We are trying to add the site in trusted site list Which we wrote the code in Activex. So while installing it adds the site to Trusted sites list But it is not affected immediately ...

How to use Watin 64-bit with MSIE 32-bit

Hi, I have a C#-application running on Windows 7. I am using Watin to test some flash and quicktime movies in Internet Explorer. I am running in x64 mode due to some memory limitations I encountered in x86-mode. So I run my application which uses Watin, which starts MSIE. Watin starts the 64-bit version of MSIE. So far so good. The pro...

HTML form to JSON without modern libraries

Does anyone know of a simple javascript library that serializes a form DOM object to JSON? I know jQuery has the serialize method but since I am writing an app for IE mobile, I can't use any of the new fancy libraries, must be oldschool simple javascript, as light as possible. Cheers ...

Internet Explorer SPAN style issue when Input button is removed

Internet Explorer does not remove the extra padding from my button when the input button is missing. The input button will sometimes be missing, because on a dynamic page the button will sometimes be hidden. See my example using Internet Explorer when viewing my demo link: http://media.apus.edu/it/evan-testing/form.htm I tested this i...

window.open causing error in IE only.

I am calling this from ie8: function verify_ssl() { window.open ("https://seal.godaddy.com/verifySeal?sealID=129275340046e2e09512711f05bc73f617fac022950185486622550", "ssl-window","status=0,toolbar=0,menubar=0,resizable=0,width=540,height=435"); } It says invalid argument, It works fine in FF and Chrome. Any idea what the issu...

How do I do @font-face antialiasing in Internet Explorer?

I'm embedding a font in Internet Explorer with @font-face and it works but is not antialiased. How do I enable antialiased rendering for embedded fonts in IE? ...

Javascript issue that works in IE and not Firefox

I am running into an issue when troubleshooting a web page that works in IE but not Firefox. The Firefox debugger is stopping on the following line: btnhelp = new button("btnhelp", framemenu.document.imghelp, "../images/gui/help_o.jpg", "../images/gui/help.jpg", "", "hand", true); I see that button is defined in another class with som...

Background image flickering when mouseover - IE.

Hello everyone, I have a contact form and I added an image as a background. The background image is flickering when I move the mouse over the fields in IE(6,7,8). If I remove the contact form (made with divs) everything is fine. I tried to build the form with table and I have the same problem. Any solution? Every idea is welcomed! ...

Jquery ajax and php die()

Hi, I have an IE problem. I am using the jquery ajax method to call a php script. The php script just calls die(). In firefox, the error message is displayed, but in IE the success message is displayed without any data. I would prefer the error function to be called. Is there any way to fix this? I'm guessing my javascript code needs ch...

Is case sensitive ID for IE avoidable if using YUI 2.8 ?

I'm using YAHOO.util.Dom.get in IE. It seems to be case sensitive and YUI (2.8) can't seem to deal with. FF lets you get ID's without case sensitivity issues. I was wondering if there is a way to also do it in IE. This link says there is a problem. But has YUI been able to get around this ? ...

Are there some good CSS practices in order to avoid browser-compatibility issues with IE?

I've discover so far that: stating the width in some elements fix issues in IE. and of course using a CSS reset Do you know any others? ...

Intermittent Internet Explorer Error whilst using Javascript to traverse XML Nodes

Hi there all, Basically I use a javascript SOAP plugin to send and receive XML from a web service. Recently I've been experiencing intermittment (1 in every 20-30 times) errors in IE when trying to access data in the XML file. Bear with me on this, I'm going to try and go into a fair amount of detail to help anyone who is willing to r...

Javascript Cookie problems IE

Hi guys, been bagging my head over some Javascript, please help, I cant see why it simply wont find my cookie in IE 7 or 8 I am setting the cookie true through another event, but I just want to see IE pick up the cookie which I initially set. Works in firefox too, thanks in advance. var t=setTimeout("doAlert()",8000); var doAlertVar = ...

IE conditional statements not working

I have 3 stylesheets, style_ie6.css, style_ie7.css and style.css. Here's what I have: I've used browserlab, ietester and browsershots and IE6 & 7 are ignoring my conditionals and loading up the main stylesheet. *edit: don't know why it isn't displaying... here's the live link:http://www.inishrosshouse.c...

Writing UTF8 text to file

I am using the following function to save text to a file (on IE-8 w/ActiveX). function saveFile(strFullPath, strContent) { var fso = new ActiveXObject( "Scripting.FileSystemObject" ); var flOutput = fso.CreateTextFile( strFullPath, true ); //true for overwrite flOutput.Write( strContent ); flOutput.Close(); } The code...

Looping over all tabs in IE 8

Question: I want to loop over all open tabs in Internet Exporer (for all open IE windows) and save the URL in a text file. How can I do that ? I have windows 7 32 bit and IE 8. Code for Firefox/Google chrome would also be welcome. ...

IE browser script to determine which (if any) ActiveX control will handle specific mime type

I'm trying to figure out in an IE script (javascript or vbscript) which ActiveX control will handle a specific mime type, "image/tiff" in this case. This is easy to do in other browsers that use plugins with; navigator.mimeTypes["image/tiff"].enabledPlugin.name which would return something like QuickTime Plug-in X.X.X I've fo...

jQuery .append() not working in IE, Safari, and Chrome

So I'm using jQuery's AJAX function to read some XML for me and it's worked just fine. But now I'm trying to manipulate the display property of 4 different dynamically generated divs when mouseup is triggered from option items. The size and x/y of the divs are determined by the XML and are parsed through. My problem lies in the fact tha...

XMLHttpRequest error in IE, works without issue in Chrome/FF

function addRequest(req) { try { request = new XMLHttpRequest(); } catch (e) { try{ request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); }catch(e){ try { request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHttp"); } catch (e) { alert("XMLHttpRequest error: " + e); } } } requ...