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

Considering that IE 6 is considered EOL.... Our focus should only be on 
IE7 and its counterparts.

Joshua D. Drake


> Chris
> 
> On 5/13/07, Chris Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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* < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> 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* < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>>     <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> 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* < [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>>         <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]>> 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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