Many end users are taking advantage of all of the goodness that jQuery provides, whether by adding simple effects like a sliding Quick Launch, more sophisticated form enhancements like SPCascadeDropdowns from SPServices, or even writing their own scripts for more complex solutions. More than ever, the distinction between “end user” and “developer” is blurring. IMO,…
This one is from way off in left field, but it explains many oddities that I’ve seen over the last 6 or more months, I think. Stick with me as I explain it. There are some goodies along the way, as well as the solution to this problem. At the very least, I get to…
I’m not a big fan of clunky workarounds, but they do have their place in the world. This one occurred with a SharePoint 2007 site and IE8. Now I know that by default, this should work fine, but I’m not the first person to run across this issue. It may happen that if you are…
I’ve fixed it on multiple machines, but I always forget where the setting is. Here, for future me when he needs them, are the simple steps to make this annoying popup go away: Go to Tools->Internet Options->Security Select the ‘Security’ tab Click the ‘Custom Level’ button In the ‘Miscellaneous’ section change ‘Display mixed content’ to…
Ever since I upgraded from IE7 to IE8 (first to the beta, then to the released version), I’ve seen that my cookies seem to disappear from time to time. This is evidenced by the fact that I need to log in again to such innocuous sites as my.yahoo.com. I’ve finally figured out that this seems…