Friday, March 1, 2019

Rediscovering outdated quirks in IE11

Welcome to 2019, it had been exactly 2 months since the year started, and finally I'd came across notable oddities.

As detailed in the post here, during the course of my work, it was discovered that while the browser was already Internet Explorer 11 running on Windows 10, the production environment had maintained a compatibility mode view for the legacy application.

Testing the same setup on my own machine turned up interesting bugs before the above was realised. The getElementById was retrieving by the "name" attribute on HTML elements successfully in IE7, but because my own IE11 was not configured this way for the site, the errors started appearing. We'll endeavour to work towards fixing all similar bugs in the application, but for now, leaving it on compatibility view would have to do.

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