Web Dev

IE Developer toolbar stops working

Thursday, May 8th, 2008
I rely a lot on tools like the IE Developer toolbar. Recently after uninstalling IE 8 Beta 1 and returning to IE 7, the toolbar just stopped working. I could launch it, but all the options were greyed out. It took me a while to fix this, yet the solution is embarrassingly simple. I found it ... read more

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IE7 emulation in IE8 Beta 1 doesn’t do what it says on the tin

Thursday, March 6th, 2008
IE8 Beta 1 has some cool features, but, as I still need to develop for IE7, I only installed it over IE7 because it has an IE7 emulation mode. Problem is, that mode doesn’t quite work. Oh. Oh. Oh. See Gmail puke. Look Microsoft! Look! What is going on with the left navigation? It’s usually more ... read more

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IE6, SSL and non-secure items

Friday, August 3rd, 2007
I'm working on a financial web app that's SSL-secured, and recently on page load, IE6 has been throwing up the mixed content prompt: "This page contains both secure and unsecure items". This confused me because I searched through the app and couldn't find any URLs with the "http" scheme. Using Fiddler2 I was able to decrypt the ... read more

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