cross-browser

jQuery Ajax cross browser/cross OS

Is there any reason why a jQuery Ajax request to the server would work on Firefox for Mac and not on Firefox for PC? ...

Is it good to use float in table less design?

Is it good to use float in table less design? What is the pros/cons of float in the context of table less cross browser compatible design? Is there any the best practices guidelines for cross browser compatible tableless design? ...

Tool to Convert table base design to table less design

What is the best optimized way to convert table base design to table less design? the layout should be cross browser compatible and SEO Friendly. Is there any tool/editor which converts existing table base design to table less design? Is there any option in dreamweaver to convert the design in tableless? ...

scroll into view the selected element

hi all, i am new to javascript.. i have two select boxes with multiple selection enabled.When i select an element from first select box it scrolls into view the corrosponding element from the second list.The single selection goes fine in all browsers explorer,firefox,chrome. now, if i select the first,last element from the first select...

Buttons size not equal in IE and Firefox

I have few buttons on my jsp page and I am using the style as : *.buttonblue { background-color: #003366; border-color: #99CCFF; color: #FFFFFF; font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold; height: 20px; display:inline; line-height: 1.2; text-align: center; m...

bookmark feature opening as a sidebar

HI, I have implemented a Bookmark feature in my website, but when I click on the bookmark link from the toolbar, its opening as a new window in a sidebar instead as an new page in mozilla firefox, It is working accordingly in IE, Can any one please help me in this Check the bookmark feature what i have implemented 'www.cricandcric.com...

AJAX vs ActiveX/Flash for browser-based game

I have been following the usage of JavaScript for the past few years, and with the release of extremely fast scripting engines (V8, SquirrelFish Extrene, TraceMonkey, etc.) the possibilities of JavaScript have increased dramatically. However, the usage share of Internet Explorer coupled with it's total lack of support for recent standard...

Is IE Collection reliable tool for testing with various versions of Internet Explorer?

On my Windows machine -- I typically test different versions of Internet Explorer using an array of Virtual Machine instances (which obviously requires a fair amount of investment in time and money). In a pinch I have also used IETester -- which at times can be a little unreliable. However, I just discovered IE Collection and was wonde...

IF statement + Jquery popup?

How would i go about having my site know lets say "IE User Visit's" and my site goes oh there on IE pop up lightbox or something. needs to support html. but say there on Mozilla or safari base browsers it just goes it because radius is supported by them ...

jQuery multilevel crossbrowser dropdown menu

Hi I've been testing lots of dropdown menus, but I was looking for some specific stuff: multilevel crossbrowser css based (mainly) if uses javascript, to be jQuery compatible easy to implement After discarding some menus, I arrived to Superfish http://users.tpg.com.au/j_birch/plugins/superfish/ I had to discard it too, because the...

Easiest way to retrieve cross-browser XmlHttpRequest

What is the easiest and safest way to retrieve XmlHttpRequest object that works across all browsers? Without any extra libraries. Is there a code snippet you use often? P.S. I know there are tons of examples on the net, but this is precisely the reason I am asking: there are too many different examples, and I just want something simple ...

Problems with my HTML/CSS

Note below is my CSS. This is a three column website. my main content is in the center. The problems that I am having is that my main content does not adjust correctly to IE. It is fine in FF but not in IE. .columns3headers2 #mainContent1 { margin: 0 22% 0 24%; width: 570px; background-color: #DDDDDD; height: 370px; padding: 0...

How to get cross browser <sup> without intrerupting line height?

How to get cross browser <sup> without interrupting line height? I tried vertical-align:top but it looks ok in FF 3.6 and IE but not in FF 3.0. How to get consistent in size (size of superlative text) and position of <sup> identical in all browsers without interrupting line height. I'm using <sup> to indicate footnote? not to show pow...

Catch all DOM events on a page (without Firebug et. al.)

How would I go about creating a cross-browser script, that would intercept all events firing on a page/browser window/DOM-tree (regardless of browser)? What I'm hoping to accomplish is basically to get a better understanding of the different handling of events in different browsers; I know the basic theory, but need to see to believe......

How do I develop browser plugins with cross-platform and cross-browser compatibility in mind?

My company currently has a product which relies on a custom, in-house ActiveX control. The technology it employs (TWAIN) is itself cross-platform by design, but our solution is obviously limited to Internet Explorer on Windows. Long term we would like to become cross-browser and cross-platform (i.e., support other browsers on Windows, s...

What's the best way to do cross browser testing?

What's the best way for me to check if my website is compatible in IE7,8, Safari, FF, and Chrome without having to install each and everyone? I mainly want to check the CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. Update I put a bounty in hopes there is a more practical solution for someone like myself. I am using Windows 7 Home Premium x64. Update2 I ...

Best way for cross browser applications

In our organization, we are still on .net 1.1 environment, using javascript, a few open source applications/widgets. Development is done using Visual Studio 2003, grid view, and iframes. Our application works in Internet Explorer 7 and IE 8 (in compatibilily mode). Can anyone give any basic steps we can take to get our application to w...

How can I detect if the browser has encountered a JavaScript error ... in JavaScript?

For automated testing reasons I want to detect if the browser has encountered JavaScript errors for a page. The type of things that would cause the red numbers in the bottom right in Firebug or yellow warning icon in the Internet Explorer status bar. These JS errors could come from any one of a large numbers of scripts. How in JavaScrip...

What's the cross-browser way to capture all single clicks on a button?

What's the best way to execute a function exactly once every time a button is clicked, regardless of click speed and browser? Simply binding a "click" handler works perfectly in all browsers except IE. In IE, when the user clicks too fast, only "dblclick" fires, so the "click" handler is never executed. Other browsers trigger both eve...

main content wrapper div get's pushed down the page in IE

I have a 2 column layout, with the left side for navigation and the right side for the main content. The right side content has a wrapper div that looks like: <div id="content"> Now this looks fine in FF and GC, and it IE but if I change the padding to anything over 4px that section gets pushed down below the left navigation. #conte...