Haven’t tried this myself, is not very easy now that I’ve completely crossover Mac and I only use IE to test Websites about once every week, but it seems that IE is a memory thief.
Has anybody experienced a similar issue? We may need to keep an eye about this on the upcoming IE8 since it seems to be a recent behavior probably caused by a patch?
I know iframes are not that great because of accessibility issues etc but they are a great solution when clients want to white label applications or information from other Websites which in case is what I had to do on this occasion and what triggered this post.
To make a long story short, I have a client that wanted to offer the reservation system I created for them to other websites who in turn didn’t want to have clients go away from their own websites or see my client’s logo and contact information. My client’s system was tied in with their internal Database and server and for security everything needed to be ran on their servers without any external connections so the easiest way was to create a stripped down version of the reservation process, in other words just the forms, which could be placed on an iframe.
Everything worked perfectly on Firefox of course but when we go to IE, we get an error because the sessions are not set correctly so the whole system fails.
So here I am, once again trying to figure out a workaround to have something as simple as a form, that uses PHP sessions set on an iframe, work on IE the way it flawlessly work on Firefox. Seriously people, we should sue Microsoft for damages in all the time and effort wasted getting our websites to work on their crappy monopolized browsers.
* Update
Apparently by adding this: header(’P3P: CP=”CAO PSA OUR”‘); to the page involved in setting the sessions will make IE work correctly. Just thought I add this for everybody that’s having the same problem,
As it turns out, is not only IE8 Beta who’s having a problem with the update. IE7 has join it as well. Yes, I know is not a mayor issue and all that will happen, at least until now, is that you won’t be able to uninstall Ie7 or Ie8 to revert back to IE6.
I have to say that this may have been a good thing and if I were Microsoft I wouldn’t say anything to Ie7 users, this way, I would’ve force them to stay on IE7 and dump the crappy IE6. As a matter of fact I would’ve included IE7 by default on the update so that people started loosing the crappy IE6. But I’m not Microsoft so I’m not that smart.
So here I have a simple login page
Notice there is nothing fancy and I’ve included a forgot your password button that is using the Mootools Framework to slide the form used for the forgotten password recovery as well as disabling the form used to login
It works perfectly on all browsers including IE7 (haven’t tested this on IE8). That is of course the first time around. If I decide to cancel the forgot password and then open it back up, I get only half of the first line like displayed below:
This behavior happens only on IE7 and although it might not be common for a user to open, close and then open the forgot password again, it faces me with the decision of leaving it as it is, after all it works perfectly on every other browser, try to figure out a way to make it work on IE7 or changing my whole idea so that the forgot password form doesn’t use the mootools slide.
Thanks again IE, for making me waste my time in your stupid products.
Here i bring you two tweak tools that will help us customize a little, that evil IE7.
One will allow us to remove the search bar from the upper right of the browser; two options either messing with the registry following the explanation on this link:
http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2006/12/remove-search-bar-from-ie-7.html
or downloading a simple application the guys from IntelliAdmin has created, on the download section of the previous link.
The second one will tweak IE7 in diferent ways, like showing or hiding different bars on the evil browser. Two ways again, messing with the registry following the instructions or installing a well created applications developed by the same guys here:
http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2007/01/tweak-your-ie-7-settings.html
This will make our life easier and i do want to thank them for this.
Don’t forget to check their download section for others tweak tools for Windows and company, here:
http://www.intelliadmin.com/Downloads.htm
PD: And if any of them are reading this post, i will like to tell them, that i share the same frustration they have using Windows Vista. I’m this close to throw my PC into my backyard lake.
I found this on another Website but forgot the link:
“Officially support running multiple versions of IE. Web professionals need to spend way too much time to test their work in IE as it is. Ease our pain just a little by giving us an official way of running several versions of IE on the same copy of Windows. Not necessarily at the same time, but without having to reboot or reinstall. Please.”
I mean, Microsoft updates my computer whenever they want to. They even turn it off on the middle of a rendering to finalize their update yet, they don’t update everybody to IE7 but decide that no one should be allowed to run both browsers on the same computer. So here I am having to resort to two different computers, one with IE6 an one with IE7 so that I can fully test my websites on both browsers.
Thanks again Microsoft, for making my developer life yet a little easier by having to work on multiple computers
