I did not know it was IE 8 made my website act weird till after I spent a lot of time on the code reviewing and testing on different browser. Well, to be honest, it was a trick issue. Since all of my web pages look great in IE 8 on the test web servers and development servers, and even on the production servers if we are using internal IP. But all of our website’s drop down menu items messed up in IE 8 if we access to the production servers with the external domain and IPs. Later on, when we accidently switch the IE 8 to Compatibility View mode and these style issues went away, we concluded that it was IE 8 upgrade caused the problem.
And we also learned from the IE 8’s Compatibility View Setting that all Intranet web sites are displayed in Compatibility View automatically. That was why our website problem could not be spotted internally until a complaint email from the customer outside.
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During the period of playing with AWStats tools to get all of my web site log files parsed, I had a need to automate these process. The first thing came to my mind was to use a DOS batch file to parse all log files from the previous month, generate the reports and delete them.
As a web developer, soon or later you will write some AJAX scripts on your web pages. One of interesting AJAX features is the animated loading image (see the image on the right) which is telling the visitors to be patient while the system is processing requests.
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