Web Development

IE7 CSS Background Colour Issue

Posted by WT on 18 October 2011

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Recently had an issue with IE7 not showing the background colour for a div.

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Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Auto Resizing Bug

Posted by WT on 14 September 2011

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A day wouldn't be complete with a bug. I am using jquery to slide down content like an accordian. The containing div resizes automatically when the content inside resizes. This all works great until you get to Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), the containing div automatically gets larger, but doesn't decrease when the content decreases. Works in IE7, but not IE8 (scratching my head).

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Firefox Ajax Bug

Posted by WT on 14 September 2011

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Ran into an annoying little firefox bug just yesterday. It seems firefox doesn't pass on headers to subsequent ajax requests if there is a redirect. The header being important as it tells the server that it is an ajax request. To compound the issue, the redirect is handled natively by the brower and there is no way to intercept this to change the behaviour.

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