Re: New Install - Getting kicked out of Admin Screen

On 5/13/07, Chris Nighswonger <..hidden..> wrote:

I realize this does not help pre-XP users, but the buttons in 1.2
appear to work fine under IE7.

Chris

On 5/13/07, Chris Travers <..hidden..> wrote:
> So, I guess the question for everyone is:  How important is Internet
> Explorer support for LSMB 1.x (out of the box at least)?  Obviously for 2.x
> we can provide a different set of templates without localizable buttons for
> businesses requiring IE.
>
> Lack of IE support would hurt me a bit.  And I am guessing that the problems
> are likely to be similar for Pocket IE.  But I am worried that trying to go
> back to submit buttons is going to require hackish i18n support which I am
> not thrilled about either.
>
> In either case, I will be letting people I know at Microsoft why this is a
> problem.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Chris Travers
>
>
> On 5/13/07, Charley Tiggs < ..hidden..> wrote:
> > I can verify that this is, indeed, the problem.  I ran into this glitch
> > a year ago while working for another company.  The fix we used was to
> > rename the button to something else, add a hidden field with the
> > expected name and use an onClick event to set the hidden field to it's
> > proper value.  Bug-ugly hack but IE 6 users were then able to perform
> > the functions they were trying to do.  Same goes for inputs of type
> > image as well.
> >
> > Charley
> >
> > Joseph R. Hunt, Jr. wrote:
> > > A bit of googling found this:
> > >
> > >
> http://narayanraman.blogspot.com/2006/12/button-tag-problems-and-ie-6.html
> > >
> > > "Discovered that IE and Firefox handle the <button> tag differently.
> > >
> > > If you have a tag like
> > >
> > > < button type="submit" name="b" value="abc">
> > > Button Text< /button>
> > >
> > > When the form is submitted, the value of the parameter "b" is "abc" in
> > > firefox (the value attribute) while for IE, it is "Button Text" (the
> > > innerText)"
> > >
> > > -----------
> > >
> > > I don't know enough of perl nor of LedgerSMB to verify that this is the
> > > problem, but it sure seems to be.
> > >
> > > Joe
> > >
> > > P.S - it is not a problem with cookies not being enabled.  I tested for
> > > this.
> > >
> > >
> > > Chris Travers wrote:
> > >> Normally, if a cookie expires, you get a Session Expired message and a
> > >> request for a password.
> > >>
> > >> The fact that he is getting kicked back and that this seems to be
> > >> happening to multiple IE 6 users suggests that something isnt being
> > >> sent to the web server as expected.  Does IE6 handle <button> elements
> > >> properly?
> > >>
> > >> I good test would be whether this fails in 1.2 in IE6 but not 1.1 an
> IE6.
> > >>
> > >> Best Wishes,
> > >> Chris Travers
> > >>
> > >> On 5/12/07, *M Lubratt* < ..hidden..
> > >> <mailto:..hidden.. >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>     It also sounds like a cookie expiration issue possibly.  Try
> > >>     removing all of your cookies and making sure the browser is
> > >>     accepting cookies.
> > >>
> > >>     Good Luck!
> > >>     Mark
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>     On 5/12/07, * Chris Travers* < ..hidden..
> > >>     <mailto:..hidden..>> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>         Hmm.... Makes me wonder if <button> elements are broken on IE
> :-(
> > >>
> > >>         Anyone else confirm that this is the case?  If so we may need
> > >>         to look at some shim to fix it for these users.
> > >>
> > >>         Best Wishes,
> > >>         Chris Travers
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>         On 5/12/07, *Vincent Bono* < ..hidden..
> > >>         <mailto: ..hidden..>> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>             Chris,
> > >>
> > >>             Using IE 6.0.2900
> > >>
> > >>             but your question made me try it in firefox which works!!!!
> > >>
> > >>             Thanks - odd - since I use this same IE with an sql-ledger
> > >>             install.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>             Thanks Again!
> > >>
> > >>             -Vin
> > >>
> > >>
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > >
> > >
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