internet-explorer

website issues in IE

I have a site: http://www.ratingscorner.com/Mobiles/HTC-HTC-Touch-HD2 If you view the page in FF and IE 7, you will see the difference: the slideshow part is present in FF, bur will not be shown in IE. I tried many things, but none worked. Is there any IE fix for this? The performance in IE 6 is terribly slow. It's around 3-4 minutes t...

getting xpath 2.0 functions to work in any browser at all

I want to use XPath 2.0 functions, like these: http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_functions.asp In a browser XSL transform. I can specify the XSL version as 2.0 in the stylesheet tag, but this doesn't seem to activate the 2.0 XPath functions (at least in Firefox). So for example this: <xsl:value-of select="node-name(//testnode)"...

a:hover above img doesnt work properly with display block under IE & Opera

Had anyone got a problem with a:hover that has position: absolute and is above <img> under IE & Opera a:hover has background, but <a> hasnt, both has display: block. Thank you in advance for your help ... To see the problem please check this webpage: http://bckp.eu/test.html or use this code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD X...

How can I get rid of these shadows on my text in Internet Explorer?

Hi There, If you go to http://mattculbreth.com or http://mattculbreth.com/projects.html in IE <= 8, you'll see shadows around the text. Safari, Chrome, and FireFox all render this correctly. From looking at the CSS, can anyone tell how to make this look better in IE? IE 9 looks ok (but it doesn't get the gradients, which I'm fine wit...

Internet Explorer uploading file data as a String in Rails 2.3.4

Some random IE users (versions 6-8) aren't able to upload files. The data that comes in the POST is a String instead of a File object. Has anyone seen this and have any insight into where the issue may be? Valid upload: attachment_data: #<File:/tmp/RackMultipart7719-0> Invalid upload: attachment_data: "Soccer profile.doc" [UPDATE] ...

Web browser component (AxSHDocVw) forcing to run 32-bit IE version on 64-bit OS.

I plan on deploying a component that makes heavy use of the AxSHDocVw to automate IE on a server (making screen captures of various sites). The server in question is 64-bit win2k8 box. Because Adobe can't get their friggin act together and release a 64-bit flash player, I need the AxSHDocVw to run the 32-bit version of IE so that it rend...

Silent Print with Internet Explorer

I have a desktop application that needs to print HTML files. I can launch Internet Explorer with the printto verb from Shell Execute and it will print the file, the problem is it always displays the print settings dialog box. Is there any way to get it to print without the dialog? ...

HTML table empty on postback in aspx page in IE 7/8

I have some .aspx pages that are displaying an odd behavior in Internet Explorer 7 & 8 (but not Firefox). I am using master pages. The page has a table with a large number of dropdowns, textboxes and radio/checkbox lists, plus two gridviews. Some of these controls have autopostback and, when the page postsback, the table is empty on t...

IE mousemove bug

Hi, I have a tooltip script which uses the mousemove jquery function. Everything works fine expect for IE. Take a look here: http://omarabid.com/deploy/ The rectangles are "li" elements. When you move the mouse over, a tag appear. In IE, the tag does appear, but only if you move the mouse over a empty region (in the right). When you move...

Is there a way to programatically remove controls from C:\Windows\downloaded program files?

I am trying to create a tool that will perform some "clean up" functions for some non-technical Windows users. Most of the work will be unregistering dll files from previous versions of the client (ActiveX based) and then reinstalling the most current version from an msi file. The problem I have is in properly removing downloaded contro...

showModalDialog causes path problems for IE

My master page loads script files like: <script src="/Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.js" type="text/javascript"></script> Elsewhere I have a function that pops up a modal dialog box using this masterpage in the form: function openCreateUserPopup(URL) { page = window.showModalDialog(URL, 'UserEditor', "dialogwidth: 450px; dialogheight: 370p...

Disallowing POST BACK when one is already in progress

Disable a post back from asp.net i.e. buttons, links, gridview page index changing and sorting etc when a post back is already in progress. Target browser is IE 6+. I've written these 2 javascript I am not sure how to apply it on GridView Page Index changing. <script type="text/javascript"> //isFormSubmitted variable is used t...

php SetCookie works in Firefox, but not IE

Hi All, I have two php scripts test.php <?php header("location: test2.php"); setcookie("test", "8kFL4IZfjkBmV7AC", time()+60*60, '/'); exit; ?> test2.php <?php var_dump($_COOKIE); ?> I then point my browser to test.php which redirects to test2.php. I then get the following results. In firefox, i get the following: array ...

After the DOM is ready, IE will not show page content when Javascript is modifying the DOM? (but Firefox will show)

I have a page that will initialize jCarousel when the DOM is ready (by jQuery's $(document).ready()), but on IE 8, the page is not displayed until jCarousel has finished initializing, which can be 1 minute later. On Firefox and Chrome, the page content is shown right away, while letting jCarousel do its job. So is it true that IE will...

Weird ASP.NET MVC Home route behavior

Wondering if anyone has come across the following: I have an ASP.NET MVC (v2) site. If I hit /Home/Index, the home page is served correctly. If I hit /Home/, the home page is served correctly. If I hit /Home, the home page is served correctly UNLESS I'm using Internet Explorer, in which case I get a File Download dialog box wanting me ...

Background image not sliding along with website in IE6 and IE7

Hello, Here's my question: I have a sliding navbar on the top of my website, with a sliding button (toggle slide up/down). By default the navbar is closed. When I click to slide down the navbar, the background-image remains fixed, it doesn't slide along with the rest of my page. This is in IE6 & IE7 too Note that the background-image...

MSIE window.open not opening

So I'm having a popup that opens upon click on a link, but IE (8.0) doesnt want to show it. <a href="javascript:tellafriend('tellafriend.php?id=<?php echo $obj_id; ?>');">Send page</a> And this function in JS: function tellafriend(url) { popup = window.open(url, "Send page", "width=500,height=600,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes");...

How to set a content-type for a specific file with Rack?

I want to have Rack serve a specific file with a specific content type. It's a .htc file and it needs to be served as text/x-component so that IE will recognize it. In apache I would just do AddType text/x-component .htc How can I achieve this with Rack? Currently the file is served by Rack::Static, but I didn't find an option to set ...

CSS, Internet Explorer 7: layout messed up when I click on a menu

hi, In Internet Explorer 7, when I click on the menu in 'Categories' block, my website content slides to left. Could you help me to debug this ? http://69.90.160.65/~o110334/ thanks ...

Need help debugging a jQuery-Plugin for IE

Hi! I'm developing a website for a friend. It's almost done, but there is still an issue concerning the IE 7 and 8. There is a slide show on the start page, done with jQuery and a jQuery-plugin (jquery.cycle), that works great on FF 3.6, Safari 4 and Opera 10.60. But IE 7 and 8 won't display anything. I've enabled the debugger, but it d...