Thursday, October 9, 2008

Using Internet Explorer 6 on vista

There is probable a few people who would want to run ie6 on vista,
probably the webtesters (like me), or people who don't like ie7 (like me) but do not want to use opera or firefox (unlike me). And since the normal XP portable editions do not work, it seemed there was no answer.

Searching the google did not reveal much,
only that a lot of people were trying the same thing.

Luckily I found a great program IETester which makes this possible
(I did not test yet if it does everything IE6 does, but for my case, it was perfect).

the link is : IETester homepage

This program allows you to run your (or other) sites in
internet explorer version 5.5, 6, 7 and since the latest version 8 beta 2.

I hope this helps somebody!

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Window opened from javascript

When using javascript to open a window, it appears on top.
When this window loses focus (gets in the background),
and the user clicks the link again, the window is reloaded,
but does not get the focus again.

Since for some people this is important, the solution is to make sure the opened window has the focus :

var openedWindow = window.open("someurl", "somewindowname");
openedWindow.focus();


This will refocus the opened window.