On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 10:24, Jack Coates wrote: > you make the fatal assumption that IE supports the standard. It doesn't. > Standard code works on IE if it's really really simple, but frequently > breaks in ugly ways. > > Transparent PNGs. > PNGs at all (color is off). > Advanced CSS features, like flow. > Many advanced Javascript form functions.
Especially, on the CSS support. We have Java based (JSP) system we developed to create and issue insurance certificates for commercial insurance. The completed certificate is displayed in two frames. A small horizontal frame, containing nothing more that a few navigation buttons and a background, over the main window in which the completed certificate is rendered in the Adobe Acrobat reader plug-in. Recently, we started getting complaints from our users that the system was very slow and that it would take a minute or more for a certificate to be displayed. During troubleshooting we discovered that it could take up to 5 minutes to display the certificate from the time the user clicked the submit button if they used IE. However, if they used Netscape 4.78, or later, the certificate would be displayed in less than a second. In most cases it was displayed, before the user could even move their hand. Since we make this web based application available to our customers, it was imperative that we find the cause and resolve it. After several days of troubleshooting and debugging our head Java programmer found the problem. A contract programmer, who is no longer employed, had coded a 6 line Cascading Style Sheet for the top frame. We removed the CSS and recoded to the page. Now it displays in less than a second using IE as well as Netscape, Mozilla, Opera. et all.. -- Chuck Stuettgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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