As you have discovered, browser compatibility is a big drawback. After all, this is something very new. However, since you’re working in JavaScript, you have far more options available to you than if you were just using CSS. For example: if( window.innerHeight == screen.height) { // browser is fullscreen } You can also check for … Read more
Looks like IE8-IE7 can’t understand multiple Google Web Font styles through the same file request using the link tags href. These two links helped me figure this out: See this open Google issue, and look at the comments. Also see this StackOverlow Answer Google Web Fonts don’t work in IE8 The only way I have … Read more
Try this answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/13524518/1679310. Summary, give the IE browser more information in the meta tag: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>My Web</title> <meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=edge” /> Edit Note: As Olly Hodgson mentioned, the proper option is IE=edge, as currently stated in the above snippet. Below is the original, also working version: <meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=100″ />
We encountered a similar problem with Internet Explorer 11 where the session cookie went missing after a redirect over https. The request chain looked something like this: initial request to / -> session cookie set -> redirect to an external URL -> redirect back (session cookie lost) Our problem was due to an invalid host … Read more
this should do it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla When users visit a website (via a user agent such as a web browser), a text string is generally sent to identify the user agent to the web server. It is known as the “user agent string”. The Netscape web browser identified itself as “Mozilla/” followed by some information about … Read more
addEventListener is the proper DOM method to use for attaching event handlers. Internet Explorer (up to version 8) used an alternate attachEvent method. Internet Explorer 9 supports the proper addEventListener method. The following should be an attempt to write a cross-browser addEvent function. function addEvent(evnt, elem, func) { if (elem.addEventListener) // W3C DOM elem.addEventListener(evnt,func,false); else … Read more
Gasper made a comment with the solution he finished on, but I think it’s worth calling out as an actual answer: try { delete window.x; } catch(e) { window[“x”] = undefined; } Interesting issue, I was just banging my head against it tonight. The exception is thrown on IE but not Firefox. I would suspect … Read more
You need to use the -ms-clear pseudo-element. And use -ms-reveal for the password box. This should do it: ::-ms-clear { display: none; }
In IE11, you can see local storage in console on dev tools: Show dev tools (press F12) Click “Console” or press Ctrl+2 Type localStorage and press Enter Also, if you need to clear the localStorage, type localStorage.clear() on console.
I have had this exact problem before and it has always annoyed the hell out of me. I’m never sure why it happens, but I always create a 1px by 1px transparent PNG (or GIF) and use that in your background declaration like so: a { background: url(“/path/to/image.png”) 0 0 repeat; } Hope this helps. … Read more