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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 |
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from my stupid horribly spelt blog
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NOTE ie7 now does work at adultswim.com BUT firefox doesn't errr it does if you download this active x plugin for firefox there
Friday, November 03, 2006
i just got home from a night of drinking and i have an email from a co-worker saying adultswim.com is down.
the problem is that my co-worker clicks on watch now on the "fix" page and all it does is open a new browser and loops the commercial over and over and over again..
i in disbelief pull it up in firefox 2.0
see from the glorious background of oglethorpe that there is a new episode available of ATHF!!!!
i go into the site click on the site and after watch a silly commercial of space ghost playing some sort of tony hawk game start watching the new ATHF episode!!!
so it works for me...
i call my co-worker and do the exact same thing while he does it as well on the phone and it keeps looping the commercial for him and not starting the show.
i decide to try in IE to see if it works..
yep it works...
THEN THEN i get the genius idea of asking him if he's using ie7 or ie6.
he says "yep using ie7 it was an update and i want my computer secure" (his words i swear!)
so i having the old outdated IE6 on my computer go to windows update see that it's saying HEY GET IE7 NOW!
i wait the ten mins it takes to do the update and the DAMN! slow update of IE7 and restart my computer since IE7 told me i had to.
so... open adultswim.com in IE7 go to the "fix" section and click watch now under ATHF (aqua teen hunger force) and
it doesn't load the episode!!!
all it does when i click on watch the episode is open a new identical page with that damn commercial looping...
even by clicking in the new windows under watch now it still doesn't work.....
those bastards at M$ everyone of the joy of a new ATHF!!! not to mention a new frisky dingo episode!!!
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$, we'd be posting this using our time-sharing allocation on one of the 6 IBM computers the world would be using.
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Regardless of the 'damage', there hasn't been a viable alternative to the OS that everyone wanted to use. Sure, Apple has been around for ages, but its hardly captured the imagination of business users who (obviously) havn't bought millions of PCs. You may not like M$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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