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Posts Tagged ‘IE8’

Returning to work.

August 24th, 2009 - 1 Comment

First day of class and back to work. Oh the excitement! Really, not sarcastically. I had a few things to fix / rework on the MSU Google Map I made before the summer started so I popped open Visual Studio and began editing. Unfortunately every time I tried to type if to create some logic to test for a null image, visual studio crashed. After four attempts of doing the same thing I decided it was time to bust out dreamweaver. It might have been the large amounts of javascript involved and tele-sense killing it, but it was rather annoying. Good thing dreamweaver doesn’t have that problem. After that I was checking out a problem involving an issue that wouldn’t allow IE8 users (with compatibility mode off) to click in the map to access information about a building. After looking around to see what might be causing it I couldn’t find anything in the code. It was also odd because it worked fine in compatibility mode and in firefox. I searched in the google group for the issue and low and behold its IE8. IE8 incorrectly calculates the x y click offset. How wonderful. The best part is Microsoft has known about the issue since IE8 RC1 and it still hasn’t been fixed! Their solution? Use a meta tag to force IE7 interpretation in IE8. Wow. Two losses for MS today.

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IE8

March 3rd, 2009 - 1 Comment

So I decided it would be a wonderful idea to try out IE8. Now let it be said before I continue that, in general, I don’t like IE. With that being said, I downloaded and installed it which went well. No installation errors is always a plus. I thought I would try out the CSS I have been making for a forum on my Clan’s website, so I proceed to view it. Unfortunately the font size is grandma sized. I could stand across the room and give an eye test with this junk. It is that large. So I check my CSS and yup, sure enough, I have it set to 1em. Now mind you, everything looks wonderful in Firefox, Safari, and Opera. Apparently IE8 wanted to be original and go jitterbug style with its font sizes. So I adjust the CSS to find a middle ground. I also decide to turn off some of the stupid microsoft bloatish add-ons. Well I reload the page and everything looks decent, but there some little pop down from my toolbar saying, “Internet Explorer is currently running with add-ons disabled. Click here to manage, disable, or remove your add-ons.” I click the x to close the bar. I do some more changes to the CSS, re-upload it, and refresh the page. Once again, the add-ons message is back. I close it again, don’t do anything and refresh the page again. IT COMES BACK AGAIN. WTFBBQ STOP INVADING MY BROWSER SPACE KABOOM. Well there goes the possibility of me using IE8 for an extended period of time. I search for the thing in help and there seems to be no way to disable. Oh and they actually call it enable. That is right, when you want to turn OFF a feature, you ENABLE IT. What the hell, honestly. Please fix this.

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