[AccessD] Is IE8 crippled?

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
>
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