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WebCombo 6 in IE8 is crippled, not usable

Hans — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:05:19 GMT

Hello,

I have tried to run the WebCombo sample, HyperFastWebComboWithLINQToSQLTechnology.aspx file, in XHTML mode.
I modified the MasterPage from using HTML5 masterpage to XHTML master page.
From:

<%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="./DefaultMaster.master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="HyperFastWebComboWithLINQToSQLTechnology.aspx.cs" Inherits="HyperFastWebComboWithLINQToSQLTechnology" Title="Untitled Page" %>

To:

<%@ Page Language="C#" MasterPageFile="./DefaultMasterXHTML.master" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="HyperFastWebComboWithLINQToSQLTechnology.aspx.cs" Inherits="HyperFastWebComboWithLINQToSQLTechnology" Title="Untitled Page" %>

I set the WebCombo’s RenderingMode property to “XHTML”. The result is the sample works fine in IE8, IE9 and IE10.
Please kindly have review on the modified sample to see the result. Just simply add the modified sample to WebCombo solution sample to run the sample.

Could you help me to provide me more detail about your issues? Perhaps the screenshot or the step by step guidance how to reproduce your issue on my end.

Thank you for your help.

Regards,
Hans.

WebCombo 6 in IE8 is crippled, not usable

info@zeppelin-it.com — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 02:25:42 GMT

I think it's not just the HTML5 doctype. You example page which I mentioned in my previous post has the same issues and that page is XHTML

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

http://live.intersoftpt.com/Default.aspx?url=cs/WebCombo/HyperFastWebComboWithLINQToSQLTechnology.aspx

Please just try it in IE 8.

That's pretty bad for my customers which still are bound to Windows XP and IE. So, please try to fix this somehow.

WebCombo 6 in IE8 is crippled, not usable

Hans — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 00:14:43 GMT

Hello,

Thank you for your feedback regarding WebCombo.

Basically, Internet Explorer 8 itself doesn’t fully support HTML5 doctype.
So if you want to run WebCombo 6 with rendering mode HTML5 in IE 8, it will make some issue occur.

Please kindly try to run the sample in IE 9 or IE 10 that fully support HTML5 doctype.

I apologize for any inconvenience this problem may have caused you.

Regards,
Hans.

WebCombo 6 in IE8 is crippled, not usable

info@zeppelin-it.com — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 06:46:42 GMT

Users reported that WebCombo (last version 6, all hotfixes applied) on Internet Explorer 8 (standard compatibility) has some severe issues:

on page-load the inserted item's text isn't visible
focussing doesn't show the cursor / sometimes it isn't even possible to focus the ComboBox with the mouse (only using the tabulator key from another field)
the overlay input box is too large creating an ugly visual effect

We're using the HTML5 doctype. But some of these issues are also visible con your live example pages:

http://live.intersoftpt.com/Default.aspx?url=cs/WebCombo/HyperFastWebComboWithLINQToSQLTechnology.aspx

Can you fix them please?