New Post Search fails in IE9

[Kirk Gittings]

So what is the problem with IE9?

There are several in this thread reporting the same problem with "New Posts search" using Chrome and Safari...

I have not seen this in Chrome on this website, either with W7 or Mac OX10. I have seen it on LuLa since their software change.

[Leigh]

If you are using IE9, try turning off "Enable Protected Mode" under the Security tab in Internet Options.

Isn't that kinda like walking through a bad section of Detroit with $100 bills hanging out of your pockets?

IE is enough of a malware magnet with protected mode turned on.

- Leigh

[roteague]

IE9 has several well-known issues with Javascript. IE9 interprets Javascript completely differently than earlier versions. You can force IE9 to act as IE 8 if this server side header is added:
X-UA-Compatible: IE=8

It's a good idea to add this to any websites with complex Javascript unti the fixes start rolling out.

I don't think that the solution either. You can force a site to run in compatibility mode, by clicking the compatability icon on the Superbar ... it still fails. I also tried the 64bit version of IE (which uses the old javascript engine) and it also fails. I'm more convinced it's a vBulletin issue.

[Leigh]

I'm more convinced it's a vBulletin issue.

I'm active on a number of sites that use vBulletin.

I've never experienced a problem with any of them using Firefox or Safari.

So please explain how it could be a vBulletin issue???

- Leigh

[roteague]

I'm active on a number of sites that use vBulletin.

I've never experienced a problem with any of them using Firefox or Safari.

So please explain how it could be a vBulletin issue???

- Leigh

I'm inclined to believe it's a vBulletin issue because of the Firefox and Safari people who are also complaining. But, that's still a guess.

Fortunately, I also have Opera installed, otherwise the site would be unusable for me.

[Leigh]

Fortunately, I also have Opera installed, otherwise the site would be unusable for me.

So I reiterate... How could it be a vBulletin issue if Opera works?

μ$oft has a long history of distributing software that does not conform to industry standards.

- Leigh

[roteague]

So I reiterate... How could it be a vBulletin issue if Opera works?

μ$oft has a long history of distributing software that does not conform to industry standards.

- Leigh

I have no way of knowing how vBulletin is reading or interpreting the browsers headers, nor do I know how the software is configured. If the issue exists on Firefox and Safari, the obviously it's not just an IE9 issue.

[Leigh]

I have no way of knowing how vBulletin is reading or interpreting the browsers headers....

That's rather obvious.

vBulletin does not "read the browsers headers" in any sense of the word. That's not the way http works.

The browser reads the vBulletin content and interprets it... correctly or incorrectly.

- Leigh

[Mark Stahlke]

Leigh, it's not quite that simple. Web sites can and do send different code depending on the browser's user agent string. There was an amusing case a few years ago when Opera discovered MSN would send a broken style sheet to Opera users. They retaliated by releasing a special edition of Opera, The Bork Edition, that would run MSN through an encheferizer. Ya gotta love a software company with a sense of humor.

Back to the issue at hand.
Roteague, can you post the full text of your user agent string? Visit http://whatsmyuseragent.com/ to find your user agent string. Mine is

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Firefox/3.6.15

I have a user agent switcher installed in Firefox. I'll be happy to try Firefox with your user agent string. That might give us some insight into the issue.

[Eric Biggerstaff]

Mark,

Mine is

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; QwestIE8x64

I still cannot use the "Unified" forum, but I still can visit each individual forum and post. I prefer the unified version but am just not having any luck getting it to work.

Any ideas you might have would be very welcome!

Eric