Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Jun 3 11:30:43 CDT 2010
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