Do you maintain a web-based application, with a recent rise in end-user issues. Does it feel like thay are all running Internet Explorer 8? I’m not the most virtuous or precise programmer, but in a couple of recent situations I’ve made the extra effort to get IE8 working. And in each case the problem was mine — helped along by a forgiving Firefox browser. Here are a couple of solutions I’ve found helpful.
As far as WordPress is concerned I’ve had no troubles, although one of our departments is currently struggling with a WordPress MU editor quirk — they can’t publish a new post, but can re-open it and publish it on the 2nd try. They are working pretty hard to try to identify what is causing the problem (and any ideas will be most welcome!). But in another case, with another web app, in another department, one of our users was recently told “oh yes, IE8 doesn’t work properly — can’t you use Firfox instead?” Isn’t that a cop-out? An excuse for some bit of bad coding that has been lurking in the background? Yes, it is a pain, but I don’t think it is really fair to blame Microsoft for everything that goes wrong.
Using the IE8 X-UA Compatibility Meta Tag Properly « Martin Ivanov
1. Add the following meta-tag in the head section of your webpage above any linked files (i.e, above … and tags) If the tag is below link or script tags, the fix will not work.
AJAX with IE8 – returns error c00ce56e
Although I’ve been having this problem for a while I always end up solving the problem right after I post the problem.
edit /etc/php/php.ini and change – default_charset = “UTF-8″ – IE seemed to be very picky about it. works with FF too.
Google said it created Chrome Frame because Internet Explorer, especially in its older versions which are still common on millions of PCs, are not suited to running complex Web applications like Google Wave. Google’s plan is that developers of complex apps, including itself, will add a line of code to those programs telling users that they need the Chrome Frame plug-in to run them, thereby making an end run around Internet Explorer.
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