When something works in other browsers but not in IE9, chance is that your header isn’t correct. Check with this one : <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=edge” />
HTML5 Placeholder jQuery Plugin – by Mathias Bynens (a collaborator on HTML5 Boilerplate and jsPerf) https://github.com/mathiasbynens/jquery-placeholder Demo & Examples http://mathiasbynens.be/demo/placeholder p.s I have used this plugin many times and it works a treat. Also it doesn’t submit the placeholder text as a value when you submit your form (… a real pain I found with … Read more
This is a known bug with jQuery. The jQuery team has “no plans to support this in core and is better suited as a plugin.” (See this comment). IE does not use the XMLHttpRequest, but an alternative object named XDomainRequest. There is a plugin available to support this in jQuery, which can be found here: … 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
In Internet Explorer 9 (and 8), the console object is only exposed when the developer tools are opened for a particular tab. If you hide the developer tools window for that tab, the console object remains exposed for each page you navigate to. If you open a new tab, you must also open the developer … Read more
WebBrowser control will use whatever version of IE you have installed, but for compatibility reasons it will render pages in IE7 Standards mode by default. If you want to take advantage of new IE9 features, you should add the meta tag <meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=9″ > inside the <head> tag of your HTML page. This meta … Read more
It sounds like you might have some debugging code in your javascript. The experience you’re describing is typical of code which contain console.log() or any of the other console functionality. The console object is only activated when the Dev Toolbar is opened. Prior to that, calling the console object will result in it being reported … Read more
The question box on Stack Overflow is an HTML<textarea>, but enhanced with a JavaScript… thingy called PageDown. (Source: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/121982) The JavaScript is what adds the buttons above it to let the user add Markdown syntax without typing. I’m not sure which browsers PageDown supports.