Tag Archives: Internet Explorer

TinyMCE 3.4.2 Update: Fixes for Internet Explorer Compatibility

May 6, 2011 1:17 pm /

Users of TinyMCE 3.4.1 and below should update to TinyMCE 3.4.2 to fix a number of compatibility issues with Internet Explorer.

I’ve noticed that TinyMCE 3.4.1 breaks in Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8 with any pages with content using CSS float. For instance, if you have floating left or right DIVs on a page, the content won’t be selectable.

TinyMCE 3.4.2:
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/download/download.php

Here’s the list of all the fixes in 3.4.2

Added new ‘paste_text_sticky_default’ option to paste plugin, enables you to set the default state for paste as plain text.
Added new autoresize_bottom_margin option to autoresize plugin that enables you to add an extra margin at the bottom. Patch contributed by Andrew Ozz.
Rewritten the fullpage plugin to handle style contents better and have a more normalized behavior across browsers.
Fixed bug where contents inserted with mceInsertContent wasn’t parsed using the default dom parser.
Fixed bug where blocks containing a single anchor element would be treated as empty.
Fixed bug where merging of table cells on IE 6, 7 wouldn’t look correctly until the contents was refreshed.
Fixed bug where context menu wouldn’t work properly on Safari since it was passing out the ctrl key as pressed.
Fixed bug where image border color/style values were overwritten by advimage plugin.
Fixed bug where setting border in advimage plugin would throw error in IE.
Fixed bug where empty anchors list in link settings wasn’t hidden.
Fixed bug where xhtmlextras popups were missing localized popup-size parameters.
Fixed bug where the context menu wouldn’t select images on WebKit browsers.
Fixed bug where paste plugin wouldn’t properly extract the contents on WebKit due to recent changes in browser behavior.
Fixed bug where focus of the editor would get on control contents on IE lost due to a bug in the ColorSplitButton control.
Fixed bug where contextmenu wasn’t disabled on noneditable elements.
Fixed bug where getStyle function would trigger error when called on element without style property.
Fixed bug where editor fail to load if Javascript Compressor was used.
Fixed bug where list-style-type=lower-greek would produce errors in IE<8.
Fixed bug where spellchecker plugin would produce errors on IE6-7.
Fixed bug where theme_advanced_containers configuration option causes error.
Fixed bug where the mceReplaceContent command would produce an error since it didn’t correctly handle a return value.
Fixed bug where you couldn’t enter float point values for em in dialog input fields since it wouldn’t be considered a valid size.
Fixed bug in xhtmlxtras plugin where it wasn’t possible to remove some attributes in the attributes dialog.

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How to downgrade from Internet Explorer 9 to Internet Explorer 8 in Windows 7

April 27, 2011 5:19 pm /

Downgrading Internet Explorer from 9 to 8 is a feature “hidden” from view in Windows 7. Since there isn’t a download available for Internet Explorer 8 in Windows 7, the only way to revert back is through the “View Installed Updates” menu inside Control Panel -> Programs.

I had to revert back to IE8 since we still have a number of users with Windows XP (which only runs in IE8)

You can remove IE9 and install IE8 using the following steps.

1. Close all programs.

2. Click Start, and then click Control Panel.

3. Click Uninstall a Program under the Programs category

4. In the Tasks pane, click View installed updates.

5. In the list of installed updates, double-click Windows Internet Explorer 9.

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Internet Explorer cache and AJAX

February 10, 2009 8:38 pm /

The cache in Internet Explorer is not very AJAX friendly for GET/POST commands. You must put in a constantly changing variable in the URL such as date with seconds in Internet Explorer. I noticed this when the refresh of my GET command would only work once in my window.setInterval(.. , .. ) function.  However, in Mozilla and Safari, my function was working perfect.

The solution to this is to append the current date and time into the URL of your GET/POST request. Special thanks to this post.

...

var requeststring = "http://........."+"&requesttime=" + new Date().getTime();
myHttpObject.open("GET",requeststring,true);

...

 

I previously tried setting the cache to expire on the PHP header files, but it has no effect. However, this date/time trick works.

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