internet-explorer

Flash (Actionscript 2.0) behavior in IE vs. Firefox

Our company has a large and complex flash (AS2) application. The application uses a small controller main.swf file that loads in over 100 .swf modules that make up the various parts of the application. We have been experiencing a periodic problem where some of the loaded modules will contain corrupt data after loading. As this happens...

IEs understanding of 'this'

In this code, Firefox sees 'this' as the element that was clicked and passes the href attribute through the right way. IE seems to think that 'this' as [object window] instead. How would I get this to work the same way in both browsers? Note: jQuery would be lovely, but is not an option for this project var printElem = getElementsByCl...

Internet Explorer 8: Navigate to users home page

I've been using the following script for a few years now to navigate to the users home page when a button is clicked. However, with the start of IE8, this does not work as it appears "about:home" is no longer valid. if(window.home) { // for everything but IE: window.home(); } else { // for IE: window.location = "about:home"; // ...

Making DiveIntoPython3 work in IE8 (fixing a Javascript performance issue)

I am trying to fix the performance problem with Dive Into Python 3 on IE8. Visit this page in IE8 and, after a few moments, you will see the following popup: I traced down the culprit down to this line in j/dip3.js ... find("tr:nth-child(" + (i+1) + ") td:nth-child(2)"); If I disable it (and return from the function immediately), th...

Image that doesn't show up in IE or Chrome only

I have a jpeg that shows up properly in FF, but won't appear in IE or Chrome. I tried downloading the image and loading it in IE and Chrome directly without success: both browsers shows a broken icon. So this is not a network issue. This file is a result of an image resize by javax.imageio.ImageIO. I have processed over 1000 images succ...

Ajax response empty string when triggered via form onsubmit in firefox, but working fine in internet explorer and opera (works in firefox if send by submit button instead of form onsubmit)

Ajax response empty string when triggered via form onsubmit in firefox, but working fine in internet explorer and opera (works in firefox if send by submit button instead of form onsubmit) I am simply calling a php file with the ajax GET and the php file response with - echo $response = "something"; . Then the response value is alerted...

How to access element after another element using Watir?

I have a page with HTML like this: <a>text</a> <img src="image.png" /> <a>text</a> I would like to click the second link. Links have completely identical attributes. The only thing that is different is that the second link is after an image. This always clicks the first link: browser.link(:text, "text").click ...

IE6 crash when using HttpWebRequest and Css

My web application is Asp.NET 2.0 and in one page, i'm using HttpWebRequest to load some content into a container page. This works well within Firefox, IE7/8, Safari but it crashes IE6. It hangs or shuts down. The content page i'm trying to read is called tmp.html and if i call it directly (using IE6) then it seems ok. The html code ins...

IE7 CSS Fly-out menu weirdness

I've been asked to design a fly-out menu for a pre-existing site and it looks and behaves fine on all browsers except IE7. For some reason, different versions of IE7 behave differently. I have been battling with this for the past two days and after testing with IE v7.0.5730.11, the menu looks good, positions correctly, but has weird disa...

jquery slider has mystery margin in ie 6/7

First view the page I am having problems with here: http://3hqidiots.com/onthespot/calendar.html I am using the slider found here: http://ennuidesign.com/demo/contentslider/ to slide different calendars. It loads perfectly in all browsers but ie 6/7. In ie 6/7, the first calendar loads with a left margin. Then you slide to the next cal...

Explorer Canvas r3

I am using Explorer Canvas r3 with the jQuery plugin BeautyTips. I receive this error when I hover over the beauty tip, htmlfile: Unknown runtime error. In the previous version, it would just fine. I need to upgrade to this version for IE8. Thanks for the help! ...

IE versus Firefox in displaying anchor color

Hi, I just notice a very odd behaviour in Firefox 3.5. I am running Firefox 3.5 under Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) and Windows XP. When I open the following URL : http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp?filename=trycss%5Flink2 Firefox renders the links in blue. When I open it with IE 6.0 it shows the links in 'red'. According to the...

JavaScript: Visibility error in Internet Explorer when setting focus on an input element

This may be the most obscure bug I have yet encountered in many years of working with JavaScript and any version of Internet Explorer. We're using YUI 2.7 for some of the (non)convenience methods. Sigh, what I would do for jQuery.... This is affecting Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer7. Internet Explorer 8 behaves properly. All ...

IE8 Compatibilty issues

How to handle IE8 compatibility issues? Please let me know if anyone has faced this problem and has some solutions. ...

Window parent not working in IE 8

I have a parent page and a child page. By using window.opener.parent property,I am able to read the parent page content and display it in the child page.(There is a PREVIEW button on parent page,on click of which the child page opens up as a popup and displays the content of parent page controls.) This functionality was working fine in ...

How to IE8 conditional comment.....

Very Simple Question but I am finding it hard to get a good answer If I wanted to remove certain divs when IE8 is used to view my webpage how would I do this ? could you give me a coded example please. Thanks ...

Getting current URL in Flash from JavaScript using ExternalInterface and IE

Hi, I'm trying to get the current URL that the Flash player is on. Not the URL of the .swf file, but the URL that the browser is pointing to. Thus far I've used: var st:String = ExternalInterface.call("window.location.href"); Unfortunately this doesn't work in IE. From my research, I can see that it won't work with IE either way. The...

Vertical-align image in a fixed-height block

I'm trying to BOTTOM align an image in a fixed-height block: div { float: left; width: 100px; height: 100px; line-height: 100px; } div img { vertical-align: middle; } ...works in modern browsers, except IE! IE sucks no wonder, but I really need a fix, if possible. Edited to add: Can't use tables or background image. Many thanks ...

How can I access objects in the Running Object Table (ROT) from within Internet Explorer's Protected Mode?

I have tried the following: Setting HKLM\Software\Classes\AppID{AppID}\ROTFlags to 0x1 (as recommended here), and also tried registering the object in the ROT with the ROTFLAGS_ALLOWANYCLIENT flag set. However, I always get a 0x800401e3 (Operation unavailable) error whenever I try to access the ROT object from within IE's protected mode....

jQuery Ajax not working in IE 6/7/8, works in FF/Safari/Chrome

The page in question is http://matthewanderson.cc I'm a javascript newbie working on a WordPress-based portfolio site. I'm using jQuery .load() to fetch content from WordPress posts, and it works in Firefox, Safari and Chrome, but not any of the IEs. The specific Ajax code is here: $(document).ready(function(){ $("a.ajax-load").click(...