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JWPlayer black screen on initial playback

I have JWPlayer on a clients' site. The client complains that sometimes on initial load, the jwplayer will autostart playback as intended but with a black screen. Sound is alright, and the progress indicator in the transport is moving. No matter what I do, I can't recreate the error on my machine. I'm using version 5 of JWPlayer. Her...

Create Menu with css and li elements compatible for all browsers.

Hi all, I am trying to create a simple menu using li elements, but it only works on IE7, in FF and Chrome, the alignment get weird. Also the :hover and :Active only works on IE7. Could anybody give me a hit on this? I would really appreciate it. CSS: #heading{ width: 700px; height:auto; margin: 0 auto; background-colo...

CSS: how to set the width of form control so they all have the same width?

Consider the following example: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> <style type="text/css...

remember passowrd works in ff but not in ie and chrome

Hi, It seems that my html login form supports "remember password" in ff but not in ie and chrome. Can anybody tell me why? Here's the code: <form name="login_form" id="login_form" action="" method="POST"> <div class="login_line">name<input name="user_name" id="user_name_id" size="16" maxlength="16" value="" type="text"></div> <...

Issue editing class style properties using js - issue is with IE

I have a function to edit the style properties of a class Unfortunately IE does not seem to like it but it does not give me an error. Does anyone know what the issue is? Thanks in advance function myRemoveElement(id) { var Node = document.getElementById(id); Node.parentNode.removeChild(Node); } function boolyChangeFoo(wid...

How to use WatiN to control browser tabs?

I want to use WatiN with IE in a parallel setting, i.e. work with dozens/hundreds of pages at once. I've tried sticking it into a Parallel.For loop only to see the whole thing crash, so I'm thinking opening multiple tabs in the browser is the way to go. Can someone suggest how this can be done using WatiN (or just some IE-related API) or...

How do make changes in drivers/etc/hosts take affect instantly with IE?

Firefox will notice this change immediately, but IE will need several minutes to take affect. Is there somehow I can make it work faster? ...

How to check if CAB file is downloaded by a user in Internet Explorer

I have a page that hosts CAB file like the one below <object id="SOmeID" class="Class1" codebase="..\CAB\Client.cab#version=2,0,0,2" classid="clsid:SomeIDComeshere" VIEWASTEXT > When this page is browsed the first time, there is a message to download the CAB file and is upto the user's choice to download or not Some users prefer not t...

Internet Explorer loop bug when preloading images

Hi Everyone I have created a JavaScript application that requires all images to be preloaded first. Everything works fine in Firefox but in Internet Explorer my loop skips the count at 19 and goes to 21. Has anyone come across this problem before and what causes it? You can copy and paste the script below for test purposes. var preL...

What are the most major issues with IE [website development]?

After being busy sometime with website development and constantly having trouble with making my website work on IE also, i thought it might be handy to have an overview of what the most major issues with IE are, so that one can take care of addressing them from the beginning. (Should this be a community wiki?) ...

IE6 Bug - Div within Anchor tag: inline images not links

I'm trying to get everything in the anchor tag to be a clickable link. Unfortunately, in IE6 (which is the only browser I'm concerned with currently), the only thing that isn't a clickable link are the inline images. I know that it's not valid html to put a div inside of an anchor but it's not my markup and I've been asked to avoid chang...

Internet Explorer treating AJAX GET request as POST request?

For some reason, only in IE (tried 7 & 8), jQuery is performing a POST request when it should be a GET. See below: function(...) { /* ... */ $.ajax({ type: 'GET', dataType: 'script', url: '/something/' + id, processData: false, data: 'old_id=' + oldId, success:function(data) { alert(data); } }); ...

"Null" is null or not an object error in IE javascript

The following code executes fine in Firefox and Chrome, but gives an error: 'null' is null or not an object when executed in Internet Explorer. if (xmlhttp.responseXML != null) { var xmlDoc = xmlhttp.responseXML.documentElement ; var ResultNodes = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName ("Result") ; <---- error here if (ResultN...

script running very slow in IE with Jquery quickflip plug-in

I have a jQuery plugin running on my site that is executing very, very slowly in IE7/8 to the point that it throws a slow script warning to the user. It doesn't happen in any other browser, and I can't figure out what might be going on. If you go to this page: << REMOVED >> You'll see that there are 16 results on each page, and each o...

Should we deploy a Webkit browser for our intranet applications?

At my place of employment, we are increasingly finding it difficult to develop for IE, which was historically the easiest browser to target, from an intranet-app point of view. It was already deployed. It already understood NTLM authentication, thus well integrated with our domain-level security. It had neat, albeit non-standard featur...

How to enable HTTPS monitoring in FiddlerCore WITHOUT decrypting SSL

Hi, I need to be able to monitor all requests (HTTP & HTTPS) going out of IE. I am only interested in the headers and the cookies, so that I don't need to decrypt the SSL encrypted body. But I don't see a way of setting FiddlerCore as a proxy for HTTPS without enabling decryptSSL. Thanks, Alex ...

IE error on simple jQuery

Detaild information about the error Useraget: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729) Tiemstamp: Tue, 25 May 2010 08:54:11 UTC Message: Object doesn't support this proper...

Download attachment issue with IE6-8 wih no SSL

I'm facing an issue with file download with IE6-8 in non ssl environment. I've seen a lot of articles about the IE attachment download issue with ssl. As per the articles I tried to set the values of Pragma, Cache-Control headers, but still no luck with it. These are my response headers Cache-Control: private, max-age=5 Date: Tue, 25 ...

File URI link to local folder in IE7 not working

No matter what I do I cannot get either of these local File URIs: <a href="file:///c:/">x</a> <a href="file:///C:">x</a> <a href="file:///C:\">x</a> <a href="file://C:">x</a> <a href="file:///C|/">x</a> <a href="file:///C|">x</a> <a href="C:\">x</a> <a href="C:">x</a> <a href="#" onclick="return window.open('c:\\');">#</a> ...to work....

Ie filter:alpha(opacity) black border

Having an issue where filter: alpha(opacity) is adding black jaggys around the edge of my images. Interestingly not around the image itself but around the edges of its transparency (it is a transparent PNG). But this is also happening on text I have absolutly positioned. Any help would be very appretiated! It looks fine in other brow...