internet-explorer

Any recent changes to IE session cookies?

Hi All, I have a PHP site that uses a fairly common authentication scheme. The entire login area requires ssl. A user enters their username and pw, if they match the db, a session is started and a value set for them. If they try to visit a page that requires authentication, it checks to see if that value is present in the session, and...

Get Internet Explorer Script Error when i call selenium.waitForPageToLoad

This is v. frustrating. I get Internet Explorer Script Error modal dialog when i call selenium.waitForPageToLoad(). Below is a snippet of the command sequence. ... type(short_desc, IE6.0 -- Testcase:SimultaneousEditingConflictDetected... click(component) select(component, place holder) click(commit) waitForPageToLoad(60000) ... I turne...

Why would cookies be vanishing in IE6/8, and what can I do about it?

I have a login setup on a site that stores login information in PHP's $_SESSION, and additionally sets a two-week cookie with login information if a checkbox is checked. The user is considered logged in if valid login information is either submitted by POST or either cookie is true. The behavior on FF3/Chrome is as intended, at least wi...

Strange behavior using HTML 'readonly="readonly"' vs. JavaScript 'element.readOnly = true;'

Some background So I was finishing up some enhancements in a web application that does some automatic interpolation of data. There are a handful of textboxes that the user fills out, and other textboxes in between them have values automatically calculated. The textboxes that receive automatically calculated values must be readOnly to ...

Internet Explorer find out when a user navigates away from the page

I'm using VS2008 (C++) to create an IE plugin that creates a child window. It's like a normal explorer window, but customized to fit my needs. I want to destroy the window when the user navigates away from the page, by calling DestroyWindow(). Unfortunately, I don't know how to detect if the user has actually navigated away. Is there an ...

IE printing out source code at random (seems very nondeterministic)

Hey. the busted website is: www.mgxvideo.com/mgxcopy-alpha-3, and the specific error that I'm getting is the thing where IE prints out all my source code. As far as I can tell, the error is appearing at random in IE6, 7, and 8, but it's a commonly occuring error. I'm looking for explanations, debugging tools, fixes. Anything is appreci...

jQuery's .load() not working in IE - but fine in Firefox, Chrome and Safari

I'm hitting my head on the wall against this one ... I have the following code: $("#home").click(function(e) { $(".tabs").attr("src","tabs-home.gif"); $(".islice").hide('fast'); $(".islice").load("home.html"); $(".islice").show('fast'); e.preventDefault(); }); It works perfectly fine in Firefox, Safari and Chrome...

Website not rendering correctly in IE7?

Hi , My website : geek.designbracket.com (Drupal 6.10) is not getting rendered correctly in IE7. The main problem lies with the primary links in the header and the Logo. The site gets displayed as required in FireFox and Chrome. Main Problem : The #Page div has huge margin on top and bottom in IE which displaces the Logo. Basically...

How to get IMEI number of a data card

Dear All, I have one vodaphone data card with SIM embeded in that. there is IMEI number printed on datacard i wanted to know is there any way to read the IMEI number of that data card programatically. I am using datacard for browsing. and also i wanted to know where can i get information on programming for data card so that i can ...

ExtJS: autoLoad does not work in IE

Using ExtJS 2.2.1, I've got a container element which is supposed to load a piece of HTML from the server using: autoLoad: { url: 'someurl' } This works fine in Firefox, but for IE7 this results in a syntax error in ext-all-debug.js at line 7170: this.decode = function(json){ return eval("(" + json + ')'); }; I fixed this b...

customizing default values for HTTP request headers in Internet Explorer

Hi, In Firefox, we can customize the default values for HTTP headers, let's say for changing the "Accept-Encoding" header in an HTTP request (type "about:config" in browser and serach for preference "network.http.accept-encoding", you can double click this value and can customize it) Can this be possible in Internet Explorer? Recently...

Possible to append a ActiveX control to a page using javascript?

I'm trying to append an ActiveX control dynamically to a page using jQuery. The append is successful; however, the control doesn't initialize when it is done this way. I believe IE calls the OnCreate method of an ActiveX control when a page that contains a control has finished rendering. The problem is that the tag is not present on the...

Need a good IE6,7,8 standalone.

I need recommendations on a good IE standalone for IE6, IE7 and IE8. I tried using Tredosoft's IE7 and MultiIE for IE6 but select elements were being blocked as pop-ups, even when the pop-up blocker was turned off, in all IE browsers (6,7,8). I also tried the Internet Explorer Collection from Edskes but IE6 and IE7 refuse to let me typ...

JavaScript Method results in Non Secure Item IE6

So I am baffled by this one. I have a function that is responsible for a non-secure item warning message to appear when viewing my web page from with IE6 on SSL. If I comment out the entire function the message goes way. If I just comment out the one method call it remains. What is really driving me nuts is if I remove all of the logic f...

changing document.location.href loses the DOM

I have a form where you may press a button which will give you a PDF of the current information on the form. This is done by setting window.location.href to the link to the pdf file. After i do this, none of the javascript works on the page because all form elements have value of undefined. The weird part is that the browser stays o...

IE javascript compatibility is killing me...

I left cross-browser compatiblity issues for last, and it seems IE is going to be a big pain. Nothing is working in IE; First of all, the following is not working: var img = document.createElement("img"); img.setAttribute("height", "270px"); I have an invisible div onmouseover which displays a transparent div "cpanel". I cant access ...

Is it possible to embed a SWF in a form using swfobject 2+ in IE6+?

I've been having endless problems embedding a dynamically loaded SWF into a HTML Form within IE 6,7,8 using swfobject.embedSwf. All the proposed manual workarounds for the problem involve creating a reference to the Object DOM element from the window object. For example: window[id] = document.getElementById(id); Where id is the id of...

Disabled Buttons in CSS?

Hi All, I'm trying to get a button which looks exactly the same whether it is enabled or disabled, but whenever I disable the button it seems to ignore any font styles I have set. This seems to be the case in IE but not other browsers. So does anybody know the CSS to change a disabled button so that the font is not embossed? Thanks in...

How to find a memory leak in a web application running in IE?

I've written a web app which after a while causes IE 8's memory usage to soar to just under a Gig. I think there is a memory leak somewhere in the javascript, but I've got no idea how to find the root cause of this. Does anyone have any suggestions? I make use of intervals to call ajax methods on a Java backend and I'm using Prototype ...

Big problem in IE 7, Wordpress pages wont scroll

Well Wordpress is pretty key to my website, Ive had many a problem with IE but now its a major problem, as you can see (link removed due to possible malware; see history for link). Firefox, Chrome, Safari are great, including the latest version of IE I think, but IE 7 does not show the scroll bar or page down. Any ideas what could be m...