Posts Tagged ‘internet explorer’
IE6 PngFix in Javascript
As a web developer you will know just how much we all love hate Internet Explorer 6 – one of the most dreaded browsers and browser versions that still exists in the deep dark corners of the interwebs – and you will probably have figured out that it doesn’t play well with PNG images. So here is how you can resolve this problem. It’s not as nice as an actual…
Force Download in PHP
This script works in all browsers, including Internet Explorer! if (strstr($_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’],"MSIE")) { header("Pragma: public"); header("Expires: 0"); header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0"); header("Cache-Control: private",false); header("Content-Type: application-download"); header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".basename($filename)."\";"); header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary"); header("Content-Length: ".@filesize($ab_file)); set_time_limit(0); } else { header("Content-type: application-download"); header("Content-Length: ".filesize($ab_file)); header("Content-Disposition attachment; filename=".$filename); } readfile($ab_file);
IE6 on Vista?
I find myself constantly fighting the microsoft battle of making things work in their browsers (thanks guys). On one of my machines I have Vista installed and needed to test a newly created site that apparently had some issues under Internet Explorer 6. HOWEVER, to my horror IE6 was unable to run on Vista. Once again, thanks Microsoft for making life difficult for everyone out there! After much grief, pain…
Getting an internet connection under VirtualPC running Windows XP and Internet Explorer 7
Getting an internet connection under VirtualPC running Windows XP and Internet Explorer 7 Open the ‘settings’ of the virtual machine and select Networking -> then change Adapter1 to “Shared networking (NAT)” and it will use your local machine’s network settings.
