[AccessD] Is IE8 crippled?

krosenstiel at comcast.net krosenstiel at comcast.net
Thu Jun 3 10:39:24 CDT 2010


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 

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