Showing posts with label internet-explorer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet-explorer. Show all posts

Monday, June 11, 2012

How can I convince IE to simply display application/json rather than offer to download it?


While debugging jQuery apps that use AJAX, I often have the need to see the json that is being returned by the service to the browser. So I'll drop the URL for the JSON data into the address bar.

Friday, June 8, 2012

How to "enable' HTML5 elements in IE that were inserted by AJAX call?


See the solution at the bottom of the question.



IE does not work good with unknown elements (ie. HTML5 elements), one cannot style them , or access most of their props. Their are numerous work arounds for this for example: http://remysharp.com/2009/01/07/html5-enabling-script/

Thursday, June 7, 2012

Getting jQuery to recognise .change() in IE


I'm using jQuery to hide and show elements when a radio button group is altered/clicked. It works fine in browsers like Firefox, but in IE 6 and 7, the action only occurs when the user then clicks somewhere else on the page.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Why don"t self-closing script tags work?


What is the reason browsers do not correctly recognize:




<script src="foobar.js" /> // self-closing script tag

Monday, May 21, 2012

Unexpected Caching of AJAX results in IE8


I'm having a serious issue with Internet Explorer caching results from a JQuery Ajax request.

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Why does Internet Explorer not send HTTP post body on Ajax call after failure?


We are able to reliably recreate the following scenario:



  1. Create a small HTML page that makes AJAX requests to a server (using HTTP POST)

  2. Disconnect from the network and reconnect

  3. Monitor the packets that IE generates after the failure

Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Problem with CSS and .load() jquery on IE


Is there a known issue with IE(7 and 8) where jquery .load() doens't function properly? My CSS isn't getting loaded onto the page. Here is my code :

Monday, April 23, 2012

Intercept page exit event


When editing a page within my system, a user might decide to navigate to another website and in doing so could lose all the edits they have not saved.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Getting URL of executing JavaScript file (IE6-7 problem mostly)


Hey all, I've been trying to throw together a generic function that retrieves the absolute URL of an executing JavaScript file on a web page:

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Need help controlling audio object volume in iE8


I'm very much a noob at this but I've got my .wav files playing sound effects and even overlapping when I need them to in Safari, Chrome, IE and FireFox but the only problem I still have is I can't set the volume in IE8. It just plays at the same loud level of the original file. Here is the code I have (with things I've tried commented out).

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Desktop Touch screen iPhone style scrolling in IE with jquery


Is it possible to make a web page to scroll up and down just like iPhone does in IE with jquery (or any other js tool that has not issues with jquery)?

Desktop Touch screen iPhone style scrolling in IE with jquery


Is it possible to make a web page to scroll up and down just like iPhone does in IE with jquery (or any other js tool that has not issues with jquery)?

Thursday, January 12, 2012