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In web development and programming, I often come across useful tidbits that solve a problem for me. I often have those problems again and can't remember that tidbit. Now I will. Maybe you can benefit too.
I was just trying to get a multi select list set up so that when I mouse over one of the options in said list, it would show information in an adjacent div. In FireFox this worked just fine by adding an onmouseover to the option tags and have it update the div's innerHTML. But for IE, there was no happiness. IE apparently won't handle onmouseover or onclick for an option tag. Cause who cares about option tags. Well I finally came up with a solution, at least for my case.
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In some cases of users trying to open Word or other documents from a secured external SharePoint site, they are prompted for authentication to the site again as Word doesn't know they're already authenticated. If using Forms Authentication, this doesn't really work. There's an easy IE setting you can change that will have the document open in the browser, maintaining the authentication and not prompting the user again.
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Today I ran into a problem where jQuery's wrap function wasn't working. It took me a while to figure out there even was a problem as it turns out it's browser specific. One guess, which browser had the problem. IE 7. I'd already upgraded to IE 8 which apparently fixed the appendChild bug.
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We had a user not able to use the E-mail Users option on a SharePoint group. When selecting all the users to email she would get the error, "Could not perform this operation because the default mail client is not properly installed". Rather a misleading error, as her mail client was installed just fine.
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