DNN page render correctly in IE7/Vista - windows-vista

I have a dot net nuke site that I have written a custom module for. It a form that users fill out to submit information - no big deal.
On the form, I use the Ajax and the Ajaxoolkit for validation, and a calendar popup. I enable/disable controls based on form data.
Everthing works well in every browser/OS combo that I have tested EXCEPT IE7/Vista.
The page renders with most of the lables and conrols invisible. The controls are there and you can even enter data, you just can see them.
Here is a link: http://www.gpusbc.com/test/tabid/76/Default.aspx
I develop on a Win XP machine with IE7 and FireFox and there are no problems.
FireFox on Vista has no problems.

FYI this doesn't work in IE8 on Vista in regular or in compatiblity mode. This is incredibly weird because the controls are there you can click in them but your textboxes for example if you type you don't see the data.
What I've found is that if you remove the float:left style which is inherited from the .aaInput class that all of your inputs become visible. I also removed your display of
block. Do this on both the labels and your inputs and you should be good.
I tested this with IE8's developer tools in both IE8 mode and compatibility mode.

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One site i found claimed it was an issue with IE9 on pages that make multiple AJAX calls, which my site has but, removing AJAX really isn't a solution.
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What you're seeing is how Firefox 4 renders an alert box. They've gone for a minimalist look.
There's nothing you can do about it -- how the alert() function renders its popup is entirely at the discression of the browser, and they all do it slightly differently.
If you want control over how the box looks, you will need to write your own in Javascript, or use one of the hundreds of Javascript and JQuery examples written by other people who have already found they need more flexibility than the standard alert box can give them.
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I have a page that is heavily managed by ajax, and used all day by my clients employees for data entry.
Before a merger the client was using Firefox, but has had to change to IE8 now.
Firefox would save the form inputs when the forms on this page where submitted via ajax, IE8 doesn't do this natively.
Having the forms now not auto-complete has quite an effect on the efficiency the employees are able to use these forms.
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You can enable AutoComplete by going to Tools, then Internet Options.
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Internet Explorer 8 waits until page is completely rendered and javascript is executed

We have a pretty big web page with a bunch of javascript. When loading it in Firefox/Chrome, the page gets loaded gradually. First the html that already is received is rendered and shown and then the javascript gets executed.
Internet Explorer 8 however waits until the request is completely received and its javascript executed before it shows. This gives the impression that the application is unresponsive for a short period.
We have one laptop on which IE8 loads the page like Firefox/Chrome and we've been searching for a setting on IE8 to indicate that it doesn't have to wait until all javascript is executed before showing the page or part of it.
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I ran into the same issue today when trying to determine why IE8 would render incrementally when loading from localhost, but wouldn't when loading from an intranet server.
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<head>
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...
The reason it was happening is because when loading from localhost IE was rendering with the IE8 engine in standards mode. When loading from the intranet, IE defaulted to rendering in compatibility mode using the IE7 engine. The IE7 engine would pause until the whole table was loaded before rendering, but the IE8 engine would render the table incrementally.
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If people use IE and it always does that, they've gotten used to this 'unresponsive' idea, whenever I zap open IE to check for compatibility, I just accept the fact that all pages look 'unresponsive' for a while.
It's part of IE, people that live in ignorance are used to that, they won't click away.
Not as much a solution to your problem, which is probably not there as telling you it's not that much of a problem. I don't think there is a way to give a browser instructions to adjust its rendering model for you though, and there shouldn't be, users should be able to adjust rendering models though, but not sites. Those things are a gateway to virus.

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