Mike Mattys
mmattys at rochester.rr.com
Thu Jun 3 11:50:40 CDT 2010
Hi Jim, Although it has become an Access-D traditional method to discover this just seconds after hitting the send key on the initial help request, there is always room for finesse. Thanks for the lesson. Michael R Mattys Business Process Developers www.mattysconsulting.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 12:30 PM Subject: Re: [AccessD] Is IE8 crippled? > Hi Karen and Lambert: > > I discovered what the problem was and the solution. > > Preamble: My main web development server is having some hardware issues > and > is currently limping along until I can replace the motherboard, CPU and > Hard > drives, etc... That server hosts my Dreamweaver and VS packages. In the > meantime, I have been using Developers' Notepad as I know all the standard > HTML syntax and do not necessarily need to be prompted. > > On a particular page, the one with the IFrame on it, I had just cut a > pasted > the header off the nearest website I could find and then carried on. In my > defense, late at night things are not always obvious: > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" > "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="de" lang="de"> > > And it should have read... > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> > > And of course the page filling the IFrame had a different header. All > other > browsers except IE8 seemed unconcerned. > > Anyway the problem is solved and solution discovered. Thanks again for > your > help. > > Jim > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of > krosenstiel at comcast.net > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 8:39 AM > To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Is IE8 crippled? > > Don't know about testing whether IE8 compatibility mode is on or off -- > for > a multiple-install site, right? > > Karen Rosenstiel > Seattle WA USA > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> > To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" > <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> > Sent: Thursday, June 3, 2010 8:19:56 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Is IE8 crippled? > > Hi Karen: > > Although I am very tempted to use item 2, item 1 will have to do. Thank > you > so much Karen. 8-) > > A fellow IT guy says that about a month ago, on a large install of > Windows7 > his crew removed IE8 from all the stations and are still holding high > hopes > for IE9. It does seem drastic but at 2:00AM this morning, a much larger > culling did not seem inappropriate. > > I was just reading an excellent MS article on how to do overlapping > IFrames > so it seems so odd that they do not allow their browsers to support even > local domain IFrames out of the box so to speak? I know what you are going > to say about there being a 'local' compatibility mode but it does not > work. > > While we are on the subject do you have a method handy for testing whether > a > > version of IE8 has set compatibility mode of or still off. > > TIA > Jim > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Karen > Rosenstiel > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 5:40 AM > To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' > Subject: Re: [AccessD] Is IE8 crippled? > > 1. It is supposed to have a compatibility mode -- set it to be backwards > compatible. > > 2. Uninstall IE8. > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956197 > > Regards, > > Karen Rosenstiel > Seattle WA USA > -----Original Message----- > From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence > Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 12:03 AM > To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'; 'Access Developers > discussion and problem solving' > Subject: [AccessD] Is IE8 crippled? > Importance: High > > I must have been out of the loop but I have just installed the latest > version of IE8 on one of my test computers as I am doing a series of > browser > > tests for a new client's web site. > > It appears the IE8 does not support IFRAMES even for local domains... This > is going to require a major rewrite with a lot of coding... as well it > screws up JQuery in various ways. To say the least IE8 looks like a > nightmare. > > Any help or suggestions? > > Jim > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > -- > AccessD mailing list > AccessD at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com >