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IE7 Compatibility a Developer Nightmare
yavori writes "Internet Explorer 7 has kicked in at last on all MS Windows OS running PCs because of the fact M$ decided to force it's users to migrate through update. In fact this has started a IE7 Web Developers Nightmare. The article actually explains that most of the small company B2C sites may just fall from grace because of IE7 incompatibility. One of the coolest thing IE7 is unable to do is actually processing form data when clicked on an INPUT field of TYPE IMG... which is pretty uncool for those using entire payment processes with such INPUT fields."
The only thing worse than clients never updating their software is them upgrading to inconceivable excrement 7 and then calling you, their designer, in the wee morning hours with a heated berating for screwing up their website.
I'm up to 3 now.
The biggest problem I've seen so far is the nasty tendency to word-wrap table cells when the overall content text space taken up is greater than what the browser anticipated.
You end with something like this:
Home | Something | something | something more |
last
I've been prompted 3 times to download Internet Explorer 7, and if I didn't read the update itiniary carefully, I would have been tricked into it. I even checked the "don't ask again" box, but it made no difference; they kept on comin'. It was very disconcerting. The checkbox was a lie (or sloppy bug).
That's okay, I run two browser brands anyhow. If one zarks up, I try the other brand.
Table-ized A.I.
tosh. If it wasn't for M$, we'd be posting this using our time-sharing allocation on one of the 6 IBM computers the world would be using.
:(
Regardless of the 'damage', there hasn't been a viable alternative to the OS that everyone wanted to use. Sure, Apple has been around for ages, but its hardly captured the imagination of business users who (obviously) havn't bought millions of PCs. You may not like M$s market monopolisation, but you should be happy that they have brought the world to the position where everyone has several computers available to them.
Things will be different in the future, but then it'll probably be Sony PCs everywhere running your home cinema instead
I don't know of this to be a bug and sorry not being able to give the exact source from the stuff at work but the site we did re-writted was working perfectly fine on IE6 and this bug comes to life when we used IE7 to test it. Beside this we find out that IE6 was handling our JS function correct as well as Firefox but IE7 didn't. Sorry I disappoint you by telling your favorite browser is not as good as it should have been but I have me experience and it should me those results.
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Without any knowledge of whether or not the statement about image inputs working, I must say that using JavaScript to fix a problem like this is an awful idea.
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A computer running Windows XP SP2 is still an expense, and so is a Macintosh computer.
What makes you think that? By the time the IBM PC and MS-DOS were release there were a large number of 8-bit computer systems, and home computing was a rapidly growing market.
Yes, all of them proprietary. I think it's unlikely that personal computers would have become the commodity they are now if the likes of Apple and Commodore had controlled the market.
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Erm, no, he certainly meant Links.
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