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Debugging an IE 9 crash

June 23, 2015 Our Dovetail Agent app is supported on Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. Since Chrome and Firefox auto-update, users are typically on the most current version. IE is a different story, which pretty much all of us in the tech community are well aware. Continuing to support older versions of IE is more and more difficult. But, we are sensitive to the challenges of upgrading IE in enterprise environments. For Dovetail Agent, we support IE 9, 10, and 11. IE 9 has its challenges for sure. Many organizations have stopped supporting older versions of IE, including Google.  And Microsoft recently announced that they were dropping support of older versions of IE. Barrett Sonntag (one of our developers here at Dovetail) has written a post outlining a recent challenge we ran into where IE9 would crash when dragging, scrolling, and updating styles.…

Web Developers: Make sure you're displaying script errors

May 14, 2008 By default, Internet Explorer doesn't display script errors. Most of the time this is fine, but when developing web applications, you want to be aware of any script errors. For example, lets say you have this line of JavaScript: var foo = document.getElementByid('bar').value; Notice that the "i" in getElementByid is lowercase, which isn't valid. By default, IE won't display an error. The only indication that an error occurred will be an icon in the status bar (if you even have the status bar displayed, which you may not): Double-clicking the icon will give you more details: When I'm developing web apps, I want to know when there's an error, so I configure IE to always display errors. IE - Tools - Internet Options - Advanced Tab Make sure the Display a notification about every script error option is checked. In…

IE7Pro allows Internet Explorer to be tweaked, customized, and scripted

December 10, 2007 I recently StumbledUpon IE7Pro, which is an add-on for Internet Explorer. Although my primary browser is Firefox, I use IE for our web applications, including Dovetail Agent.IE7Pro adds a whole bunch of useful enhancements. There are two that are quick wins that I love: Spell Check, and Move the IE menu bar.Spell CheckI still find it amazing that IE doesn't have spell check built-in. In the past, I've used ieSpell. I've now turned off ieSpell and use the spell checking within IE7Pro. It works as spell check does in Firefox, in that it adds a red line under any misspellings. Simply right-click on the word to access the suggestions. Put the Menu Bar back where it belongsThis is just one of those minor annoyances.IE7 out of the box puts the menu bar below the address bar: Using IE7Pro, I can put the…