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Scotty32 
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 Posted: 06 February 2006 at 11:01am |
isnt IE7 ment to be more w3 compliant? meaning alot of sites that work on IE but are not complient dont work? (PS: not about WizWiz, but sites in general  )
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 06 February 2006 at 11:20am |
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The problem with the RTE working isn't a compliants issue, but more an intermitent bug.
It seems that when you type in IE into the WYSIWYG Editor for this forum the display often goes blank, or it doesn't update correctly.
However, if you sumbit the input you find that what you have typed has actauly been entered.
So it seems to be some sort of display bug within IE that is effecting the RTE.
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Posted: 06 February 2006 at 10:51pm |
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FWIW, this bu sounds familiar. I'm sure I ran into the same thing a few years back when I was making my own rte within an app. Fixing it I think it had something to do with setting a property for the browser object and for some reason I think it might have had something to do with flushing buffers or encoding.
Not a lot of help I know, but there might be something about it in the KB.
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Posted: 07 February 2006 at 12:52am |
IE7 is definitely buggy.
If you use it be sure to use it in standalone mode. I had to remove it after using it. I'll wait for the bugs to be removed before using it again.
For using in standalone, try this:
Download the IE7 Beta 1 Install from MSDN
Open the install file with WinRAR (yep, it's an EXE, but it's a self extracting EXE) and extract them to a folder. Alternatively, you can just run the EXE, make a copy of the files which are extracted in the first step, and cancel the install. I was too chicken to do this on my work computer.
Look in the folder you extracted to for the file SHLWAPI.DLL. Delete this file.
Create a new text file in the folder, then rename it to IEXPLORE.exe.local.
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Posted: 07 February 2006 at 1:27am |
Thanks for taking a look at this guys. I realize it's a beta version of IE.
The only thing I can add after playing around some more is that the issue looks like it lies somewhere in the Javascript. A regular HTML textarea box works just fine. If you take the RTE's onload command out of your script, even though the RTE won't work of course, the text box is fine. So it looks like there must be a command in the Java that the new IE doesn't seem to jive well with in text refreshing.
If you scroll your page up and down, or wait 10 seconds or so the box will refresh and the text will line up.
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Posted: 09 February 2006 at 11:17am |
I've been playing around with the IE7 beta for a bit now and i can't seem to recreate any of these problems yet 
Altho i will be sticking with FF for a while yet 
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 09 February 2006 at 11:42am |
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Until Microsoft sort out the issues with IE7, I am currently disabling the RTE editor for IE7 users in Web Wiz Forums v8.
Hopefully they will fix the issue for the final version of IE7, but if they do not I will look for a workaround at that time.
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Posted: 09 February 2006 at 5:08pm |
There are some weird things in IE7 beta2 (although many are coz they're trying to fix their sins from previous versions). I've found the redraw problem occurs less often in WWF RTE ver2.
Strangely ye olde htmlarea 3 (from dynarch et al.) doesn't seem to have the problem at all yet must surely be using basically the same IE functions (hmmm, notice that system is a bit slow so mebbe their re-draw is different some how).
First post, so I have to thank Bruce for such good forum system
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