internet-explorer

Frustrating loop in Internet Explorer with jQuery live method

Hello all: Long time reader, first time poster. Working on a web site at http://www.howardpitch.com/, and I'm having a really frustrating time with the quiz on the front page. You select one of four answers and click the "Check My Answer" button. This will tell you if you were right or wrong and present you with a button for the next...

Amusing Ways to Abuse IE's Rendering

It's really no secret to anyone who has done some web design that Internet Explorer does some funky things with rendering. There's probably lots of examples of weird bugs and workarounds out there, but I'm curious about something slightly different. Instead of bugs that people have to hack around, what bugs have you run into that can act...

Why does Windows Media Player sometimes fail to include the appropriate cookies in requests for content when it is being used via Internet Explorer?

We have a site hosted in IIS6 that we built using the .NET 1.1 Framework. Users who go to this site use Internet Explorer exclusively and log into it using Forms authentication. Within the site, users can navigate to a specific page that has an iFrame embedded in it. This iFrame points to another virtual directory hosted on the same serv...

Resizing an IE's window given dimensions of renderable space

Hello! I'm looking to write a function which resizes an IE {7,8,9} window using javascript. The input to the function is the desired size of the rendered webpage (so IE's window without status bar, borders, scrollbars, etc. Calling foo(120, 100) should result in a rendered web page which is exactly 120px by 100px. This was my first e...

Absolutely positioned text getting cut off in IE7

http://cure.org/brant/ On the right side of the page, I have some text getting cut off in IE7. It is the HTML text numbers on top of the green tags. If you view with IE7 (or IE8 in developer mode for IE7) you'll see them getting cut off just below where they should start. I have a feeling it may have something to do with the padding on...

Drupal Colorbox module and IE

I have about pulled out my hair on this one! I am trying to get Colorbox to display the borders properly in IE7 (IE6 too, but I'll take IE7, at the least!). You can see what I am seeing here. Click on a picture in the gallery or on the login link. Either way, colorbox is supposed to be appearing correctly. It works fine in FF, but the...

Experimental CSS for IE: To hack or not to hack?

There are some eye-candy experimental CSS like border-radius (rounded corners) and gradients that I wish to use on my page. Unfortunately Internet Explorer does not support any of that yet. At least border-radius is coming on IE9, no word on gradients yet. So would you recommend just leaving IE alone (most of my users will be on FF or C...

Problem in IE-6

hi, my css works perfectly well in FF,IE7 and IE8 but the problem is that, If i open in IE6 the some problem like the margin, padding is not working, but when i reload or refresh the page the problem is automatically solved in this situation what is my fault ? I am newbie plz help me. ...

Google Maps API Marker Images not showing in Internet Explorer

Hi, I'm using Google Maps API Javascript V3 and I have a problem where in Internet explorer, my marker images aren't appearing but according to Adobe Browserlab, other browsers have no problem. The coordinates are being read from a div called "hidden". Here is my code: <script type="text/javascript"> function initialize() { var cent =...

Why is IE failing to show UTF-8 encoded text?

I have a some Chinese characters that I'm trying to display on a Kentico-powered website. This text is copy/pasted into Kenticos FCK editor, and is then saved and appears on the site. In Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, the characters appear exactly as expected. In IE 8 Standards mode, I see only boxes. The text is UTF-8 encoded, and as ...

Problem lanching fancybox from within a fancybox on IE

I'm working with fancybox and I have the code below: <script type="text/javascript"> $("a#next_fancybox").fancybox(); </script> <script type="text/javascript"> $("#submit").click(function(){ $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "/sumbit_url", data: $("#form").serialize(), success: function(msg){ $("a...

Actual IE6 Png fix

What png fix method is the most actual today? Lite-weight, with background-repeat and background-position support. ...

IE Preload Images Bug?

Okay, so I'm calling images from a sprite for my image slider. What happens is that when a page is loaded, all slideshow images are displayed horizontaly thus making it appear bugged. A solution we worked out was to set images to preload. It works fine in Firefox, but in IE it appears bugged. Here are the two lines of code that matter (w...

script onload/onerror with IE(for lazy loading) problems

I'm rebuilding my lazy loader module to accept asyncronus request but i have a BIG problem: internet explorer don't support script.onload/onerror!!! The old script did globally eval the target script source read with an ajax sync call, it works very well,it's cross browser and i can make it async editing 1 variable but it's very tricky ...

Maximum number of divs allowed in web page

Hi I was wondering if there is a limit to the number of divs that are allowed on a web page? For example will Internet Explorer start to choke when it has to render a webpage with a thousand divs? ...

Excruciatingly slow Ajax with IE6

The title, I'm sure, is gonna provoke a "here we go again..." with many readers. Apologies. I have googled this problem and got the phone book. Mostly re SSL, it must be said. Others point to the terrible JS engine in IE. None of the internet rants I found have really answered this satisfactorily for me. So I thought I post here......

Process.kill() denied in Windows 7 32bits even with Administrator privileges

Hello every one. I'm faced with a weird problem. My application has a simple method that in case IE enters a state were it gets unresponsive this method is fired closing all IE process's and then the application restarts its work with IE. Method code: foreach (System.Diagnostics.Process exe in System.Diagnostics.Process.GetProcesses()...

-ms-filter rounded corners CSS3 effect in IE?

I am using -ms-filter to get shadow effects working in IE. Is there a filter that I can use for rounded corners in IE? I do not want to use htc files. Thanks! ...

IE reading/writing on client end

Hi Everyone, Is there a way to read and write files on a client's computer using a web based application? Basically I need to create a internal app that will take two input CSV files and convert it into an output CSV file that is written to the same location as the input files on the client's computers. Since this is an internal app, I...

Image compatability in firefox and InternetExplorer

Hi, I have the following code in my spark file, [img src="${ViewData['LogoUrl']}" alt="${Record.Attributes['P_Title'].Value}" ] Its the image just showing the text.The code is working good in firefox, but in IE the text is accompanied by a "image not found" symbol. what should i do for the browser compatablility. ...