Archive for ie7
July 25, 2008 at 2:43 pm · Filed under Broken on IE7, Frustrations, ie6, ie7
Today we ran into a very fun error and by fun I mean stupid on the part of IE and probably because we had some fun trying to make it work. As it turns out, IE doesn’t like it when you use the lightbox script and the swfobject on the same page. I understand that this two scripts are not made to work together but the cool part is that they do work together without any problem on Firefox.
The problem is simple but it is quite annoying since it makes our website useless since IE decides to close the page giving the following error: “Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site http://<Web site>.com. Operation aborted.” Their excuse is simple: “This problem occurs because a child container HTML element contains script code that tries to modify the parent container element of the child container. The script code tries to modify the parent container element by using either the innerHTML method or the appendChild method.” and they give a simple workaround that involves placing the script on a closed div or something of that sort which we tried with no luck.
What we ended up doing was implementing a mootools domready type function for prototype to initialize both the lightbox and the swfobject once the DOM is fully loaded. Of course this fixed the problem but, when we tested on IE7, the lightbox overlay doesn’t cover the whole screen (I think this bug is unrelated to our issue but it is still an annoying bug that happens only in IE7). So, we decided to take the overlay out so the image now appears floating in the middle of the website with no backdrop.
As we usually say here on Stupid IE: Thanks IE for making our lives a little better.
July 14, 2008 at 3:11 pm · Filed under Broken on IE7, Broken on IE8, ie6, ie7, ie8
This post comes from a mix of two articles dealing with security while browsing the Web. In simple terms, if you are using IE on any version (5 - 
then the chances of your computer getting hacked with malware, exploits, viruses etc, are far greater than someone using a good browser like our favorite: Firefox.
The article explains us that: “The vulnerability poses a special danger since the ActiveX control is digitally signed by Microsoft, which means that people who have Internet Explorer configured to trust ActiveX controls with that designation would run it automatically if encountered on a Web page.
Some of the Web pages that have already been hacked with automated SQL injection attacks earlier this year are also hosting the Microsoft Access attack, according to Symantec’s Sean Hittel.”
And yes, it is Symantec who is explaining the problem and yes, July patches are out so IE users will have to wait or disable their ActiveX control in order to be safer.
July 10, 2008 at 5:01 pm · Filed under ie7
June 30, 2008 at 8:45 pm · Filed under General, ie6, ie7, ie8
This is a contradictory post, manly, ’cause I’m against IE and all his grandparents or children, and i will hate even more the grandchildren of this cursed browser. But, for those of u who still suffer of blindness, or those as me who are forced to use it at least to try your sites on it, to make sure they are working fine (which is hard and tedious to make it work accordingly), for those of you, here is 36 tools that will make better your usage or testing. Keep in mind that if u want a perfect experience while browsing a site, I recommend everyone switching to Firefox.
Anyway, here is the link and sorry for such a hate:
http://nethackz.com/36-ie-plug-ins-to-keep-it-fresh-and-breathing/
Enjoy !! 
June 25, 2008 at 1:20 pm · Filed under Plain Evil, Stick It To IE, ie6, ie7, ie8
Look what it shows if you do a search with the keyword: internet explorer on www.urbandictionary.com. I had an awesome laugh.
- A simple Windows XP tool which allows the user to browse to Mozilla.com and download Firefox, a web browser.
As soon as I installed XP I opened Internet Explorer and grabbed the latest version of Firefox.
- Microsoft’s pre-installed, default internet browser for Windows. Has to be the worst browser on earth, because its only features are free viruses, automatic spyware downloads, and awesome security holes.The best part about Internet Explorer is that it forced companies, such as Mozilla and Opera, to make their own browsers, which completely and utterly blow Internet Explorer out of the water.
Download Opera/Mozilla plz.
“Internet Explorer installed spyware on my machine again :\.”
- One of the most amazing tools for downloading Firefox
I used Internet Explorer to download Firefox. One of the only uses of this crappy browser.
- 1) The greatest browser in the world. No other browser can download Mozilla FireFox like Internet Explorer.
1) As soon as I turned on my brand new Alienware PC, I fired up Internet Explorer so I could download Mozilla FireFox.
- The crappiest browser on earth. Comes complete with security holes, shitty standards support, and no features. A favorite of ignorant internet users everywhere.Get Mozilla.
Internet Explorer is a steaming mound of poo.
- A browser that while popular, has many security holes. It also has poor support of today’s standards, and has a dangerous feature called ActiveX that can be used to install programs harmful to computers.
Still using Internet Explorer? I suggest switching to a Mozilla-based browser, Opera, or another alternate browser.
- Microsoft’s attempt to dominate the Internet by integrating this poor excuse of a browser with every Windows OS, although this was deemed illegal, they made some bullshit up about it being a core part of Windows. So in the end, they integrated this POS into Windows.IE is buggy, has many security holes, is slow, supports ActiveX so websites can install their XXX dialers on our systems, and finally, it’s not standards compliant, so 80%+ web pages have sloppy HTML which doesn’t work with standards compliant browsers, only IE. How convenient.
Internet Explorer is the most COMMON browser, but NOT the most popular.
Link here: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=internet+explorer
June 3, 2008 at 7:36 pm · Filed under General, Stick It To IE, ie6, ie7, ie8
I just wondered what it would be like if there were a car that behaved like
Internet Explorer.
- You’ll find it one morning in your driveway, and there is no way of removing it.
- The engine starts as soon as you approach it, which is a bit odd, but it seems to run smoothly enough not to pose a threat.
- Everybody else seems to drive the same car, so you give it a spin.
- It is pretty enjoyable to use - dead easy really. For example you don’t have to hit the gas pedal properly to accelerate, just putting your foot in the general surrounding is enough.
- It does swerve a bit in the bends and newer roads are a really bumpy ride, but that is a minor problem, surely whoever builds these cars must be working on that.
- For some reason, the roof leaks and when you ask others what can be done against that they advise you to wear a thick jacket made from a waterproof material. The best seems to be Symantex™.
- There is plenty of parking space around the area, but somehow all parking lots have advertising signs blocking the way. You are advised to get a CowCatcherXP2™ to get rid of those.
- After driving in some dark alleys a part of the windscreen shows advertisements for gambling arcades at random intervals. To get rid of those, you are advised to get a SpotwareRemoverTowel™. It takes some time and several attempts to get rid of the stains, but that is perfectly normal.
- From time to time you get overtaken by faster cars playing classical music, and smooth moving ones (even on the newer roads) with foxtails on the rear-view mirror. They do look flash, but why bother? The drivers seem to be weirdoes.
- On closer inspection, you see they attached things to their cars that make them a lot more comfortable to use. They tell you to get them in “extension shops” where the things are given away for free. When you ask for some, the shop tells you that you need to pay.
- If you park the car in your garage and close the door to work on it you’ll get a message that you really should be on the road to make repairs.
- If you try to change the colour of your car and fit nicer seats you realise that the paint never really covers all and the seats only fit when you fix them with a lot of adhesive tape. On the other hand it is really easy to change the colour of the tires and make the license plate fade in and out.
Courtesy of Wait till i com
April 19, 2008 at 12:30 am · Filed under Broken on IE7, Firefox Image of the Week, Frustrations, Users, ie7
“Sorry,
I am still a newbie, and getting more frustrated all of the time.
I have been working on a website for work, using the Sons of Ursidae menus.
I had previously tried to use the Sons of Suckerfish menu, and I got it to work in IE, but unfortunately, the third level menu was much too short and caused the form name to show up on mutiple lines. See www.twiggtimes.com/cccco/index4.htm
So I after researching, I found that this was a problem with this type of menu. So I found the Sons of Ursidae menu. www.twiggtimes.com/cccco/index10.htm which overcame that problem. The javascript was moved into a separate file, as I had read that it would be better to only load it when necessary, and to keep the html looking better.
I kept fighting with it, and could not get it to work in IE 7. Then I decided to try it in Firefox, and it worked. I also tried it in Opera, and again it worked. I do have an issue with the video showing up on top on the menu, but I would change the video back to a image file in a heartbeat to get the menu to work.
Is there something that is obvious to you that I am missing?
This thing is becoming more annoying to me everyday.
Thanks for your time,
Patrick”
April 12, 2008 at 10:23 am · Filed under General, ie6, ie7, ie8
Haven’t testes this myself but apparently Microsoft put a little thought into it and released a way for developers to test different versions of IE
Click here for the link
