IE loves to cache AjAX calls. If your JavaScript makes repeat calls to get new data, IE would not even bother to make that call and will just give your script a cached response. IE would not even honor no-cache headers for my AJAX requests. A popular trick that I learned from a friend and […]
Read more "A cool AJAX trick to solve IE caching issue"Forget about my RFE request. I’ve found the tool for the job. With this tool, I was able to quickly find out the root cause of the issue that I’ve been troubleshooting. Thanks to the developers behind this tool.
Read more "Fiddler for AJAX debuggin on IE"It’s interesting that I hit the same problem that Andy Martone did. According to him and Visual Web Devloper 2008 Express Edition debugger, IE treats a 204 success response status as 1223. This is very annoying. Now, I’ll have to write some special processing code to handle it.
Read more "1223 status code in IE"It’s interesting to learn that Firefox and IE 7 handles image maps differently. Firefox does not need the # character in usemap=”#mymap”. While IE 7 requires it. Thanks to James for the explanation and Jim for the example.
Read more "Different handling of image maps for Firefox and IE 7"One thing unfortunate about working with JavaScript is the need to debug on major browsers. So, I had to spend some time looking into compatibility issue on IE 7. Fortunately, I found this blog and it was very helpful. So, I installed Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition beta 2 and was able to quickly […]
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