New Post Search fails in IE9

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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

So are you suggesting that Chrome, Safari and IE9 all fail to interpret vBulletin correctly?

That is of course not totally impossible, but I'd consider a lot more likely that there is a bug with vBulletin code not being fully standards compliant. It is a pretty common issue, code being written so that it works with flawed or too tolerant implementations of standards.

[Mark Stahlke]

Using Firefox with this user agent string:

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

Both the "Unified View" and "New Posts" links seem to work just fine.

I do notice that the "Wrap [QUOTE] tags around selected text" button in the reply editor doesn't work with the IE9 user agent string. When I changed back to my native user agent that button works.

I'm inclined to think it's something in the vBulletin software but I'm not a web developer.

[Leigh]

So are you suggesting that Chrome, Safari and IE9 all fail to interpret vBulletin correctly?

Not at all.

Safari works just fine. This reply was posted from Safari, with this agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.20.25 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.4 Safari/533.20.27

I can't comment on Chrome or IE9 since I don't use either.

I am aware that some pages serve differently to different browsers. It's an artifact of μ$oft's attempt to corner the browser market by distributing non-standard programs and forcing web developers to kludge their software to work with same. With the proliferation of browsers and μ$oft's loss of market share this is becoming much less common.

I've been writing html since it became popular. I don't consider myself a website developer since I don't spend much of my time doing such, but I do have three websites online that are completely hand-written, so I'm somewhat familiar with how they work.

- Leigh

[Leigh]

Still in Safari...

I just checked the New Posts and Unified View buttons, and they both work as expected.

- Leigh

[R-H-]

I guess 64 bit IE9 is too ahead of its time...

[Leigh]

I guess 64 bit IE9 is too ahead of its time...

Probably true.

Safari is a 64-bit app.

- Leigh

[Mike Anderson]

FWIW I use Chrome on Mac (latest, I believe 10.0.648.151) and haven't experienced any of the problems mentioned.

...Mike

[Eric Biggerstaff]

Thanks Mark, looks like I will just need to go with what I have.

[roteague]

That is of course not totally impossible, but I'd consider a lot more likely that there is a bug with vBulletin code not being fully standards compliant. It is a pretty common issue, code being written so that it works with flawed or too tolerant implementations of standards.

The site is running a pretty old version of vBulletin.

[roteague]

I guess 64 bit IE9 is too ahead of its time...

64bit IE9 uses the javascript and rendering engine. Microsoft seems to feel that because of the lack of 64bit plugins for IE, that no one would be using it. That's why the default is the 32bit version.