E-com DevBlog » ie http://dev.tonic1394.com Spider-ball-vacuum Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:42:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Awesome IE Tool http://dev.tonic1394.com/2011/09/awesome-ie-tool/ http://dev.tonic1394.com/2011/09/awesome-ie-tool/#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:04:10 +0000 Stretch http://dev.tonic1394.com/?p=634 I had to get another post in before the 6 month mark. And it just so happens I ran into this awesome tool that is quite handy in terms of testing code in multiple versions of Internet Explorer. In the past I've always used the IEDeveloper toolbar (or Spoons browser sandbox before M$ got all copyrighty on them and made them remove it) and it's fairly adequate in allowing me to test the various versions of IE. However there have been times It's missed the mark or in one case wouldn't work at all with the portal I was trying to log into (IE6) So when I ran into this little beauty I was instantly captivated (as captivated as one can be when doing anything that has anything to do with IE). Behold the Internet Explorer Collection.
Maybe I'm just behind the times but this is amazing. Multiple standalone installs of different versions of IE. You can even install really really old versions like 1.x (I didn't but you can). I installed IE6, IE7 and IE8, I don't run windows 7 either at home or work so I can't install IE9.
To be fair I'm still in the test drive phase and haven't removed my IETester install yet but so far it's looking good. The only complaint I have is IE Developer Toolbar is only available in IE8, and while Developer Toolbar is not exactly firebug (but, it has gotten better with IE8) it's about all you have when troubleshooting an IE specific issue.
Before downloading read the comments on the download site. I mention it because they seem to be about 50/50 good vs bad. The software works for me so far on Windows XP Pro SP3, if anything changes I'll update this post.

]]> http://dev.tonic1394.com/2011/09/awesome-ie-tool/feed/ 0 Object Doesn’t Support this property or method http://dev.tonic1394.com/2009/03/object-doesnt-support-this-property-or-method/ http://dev.tonic1394.com/2009/03/object-doesnt-support-this-property-or-method/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:40:45 +0000 Stretch http://dev.tonic1394.com/?p=232 Just a quick post to spread more love about IE. Occasionally I run into an error on IE (who doesn't) that boggles my mind, like reading toaster directions when they throw in the verticle concept. Anyhow this particular one I've seen before but not sure I've ever known what causes it. I tried to click a submit button that when clicked is supposed to run some validation on the form. Works great in FF2 and 3 but not so much in IE, instead I get this error "Object Doesn't Support this property or method" then it attempts to give me a line and character number to look at but it's way off (as you may have guessed). So I googled this baby and the first post I read on it was the helpful-est. so I'll link to it for you pleasure but also give you the quick and dirty (too late). basically this happens if one of your js functions has the same name as one of your HTML ID's or it can also happen if a JS variable has the same name as a Form Element name which was what was happening in my case. Easy fix just change the name of one or the other and your all set.

Here is the post

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