Internet Explorer 8 vs web page coding

Sebby · Jun 08, 2009, 21:54:11

Brilliant!

Rik · Jun 09, 2009, 09:31:38

The classic support call to AOL.

Gary · Jun 09, 2009, 09:53:21

Quote from: colonelsun on Jun 05, 2009, 17:49:50
Sebby...yeah tried that and the most important part of the PayPal page wouldn't load, the 'pay' button.

Apart from a few new security add ons i couldn't see the benefits of IE 8, they were completely lost on a regular internet user like me.

Used IE 8 yesterday with paypal, no problems, was having another play with it as its as fast on my system as FF really, not a lot between them

most odd if its set to compatibility mode all the time you should have no issues, or when you arrive at the site click the compatibility icon, maybe if you did that during the process it would cause an issue as you were changing how the browser appeared to the site during a transaction

Sebby · Jun 09, 2009, 19:02:28

It's funny how IE is a still a bit of a joke (although I still think it's the best version so far).

Rik · Jun 09, 2009, 19:03:46

I discovered yesterday that the 3 dongle doesn't really like to top up via FF, it's much happier with IE.

Sebby · Jun 09, 2009, 19:04:33

Interestingly, you don't see many sites these days that don't work well in FF. A few years back, it was a different story.

Rik · Jun 09, 2009, 19:08:53

It worked when I did the top up from the dongle software, which launched FF. However, when you first top up with a card, they take your money but won't let you apply the top up immediately, requiring 7 days to clear the card. I phoned them and a guy walked me through doing it manually, by FF returned an SSL error, IE worked.

colonelsun · Jun 09, 2009, 20:58:38

Quote from: Gary on Jun 09, 2009, 09:53:21
Used IE 8 yesterday with paypal, no problems, was having another play with it as its as fast on my system as FF really, not a lot between them most odd if its set to compatibility mode all the time you should have no issues, or when you arrive at the site click the compatibility icon, maybe if you did that during the process it would cause an issue as you were changing how the browser appeared to the site during a transaction

Not really sure, and i can't really remember, what i did about the compatability thing during the install of IE 8. I have a hunch i may have simply followed the install instructions so as to not to get into difficulties later. So that strategy really paid off. LOL