I had the strangest experience with IE recently, in the big app I just released. IE7 and IE8? Tested thoroughly and work just fine. IE9 won't even let you get past the first page of the form. It's crazy. All the other browsers work -- including the bastard child, IE7! -- but not IE9. The QA tester told me that IE9 even throws fits with Amazon, so I shouldn't feel bad that I had to put a note at the front of the app that if you're using IE9 to switch to Chrome or Firefox.
I still have no idea why IE9 chokes. None of the other browsers tested do the same. Annoying. But then again, not a major stress, since I also mucked up on the error-testing and completely forgot to tie the form's error-checking to the page's error-checking. DOH. (Which means the first round of error checking says, "not a valid entry" but if you don't fix it, the second round to advance pages says, "all fields are full, let's go!" and the invalid entries end up being entered because OMG I CANNOT BELIEVE I DID NOT NOTICE THAT.)
There's a reason major apps are usually developed by two or more developers. One person alone just misses this stuff. That could just be me, but let's let me continue to live with this delusion. It's nice in this reality right now.
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Date: 3 Dec 2012 06:00 am (UTC)I still have no idea why IE9 chokes. None of the other browsers tested do the same. Annoying. But then again, not a major stress, since I also mucked up on the error-testing and completely forgot to tie the form's error-checking to the page's error-checking. DOH. (Which means the first round of error checking says, "not a valid entry" but if you don't fix it, the second round to advance pages says, "all fields are full, let's go!" and the invalid entries end up being entered because OMG I CANNOT BELIEVE I DID NOT NOTICE THAT.)
There's a reason major apps are usually developed by two or more developers. One person alone just misses this stuff. That could just be me, but let's let me continue to live with this delusion. It's nice in this reality right now.