Internet Explorer

I recently developed a sign-up form for a client that includes on-page price total calculation using JavaScript (jQuery). The premise is simple: the user provides information and specify options, then clicks a radio button to choose a specific price plan. The initial total price calculation is triggered by the change() event for the radio button elements. But, the client was concerned (and with user testing, it turned out rightly so) because in IE, the price calculation didn't happen until the user clicked somewhere else on the page. In cases where they first clicked one option, then a different one, the price would seemingly lag behind because of IE’s delayed change event firing. It was confusing to the user, but worse—confusing for me to “fix” IE’s implementation. … Continue reading →

In a day of zero fun, I ended up tasked with debugging a jQuery-based script that seemed to be perfectly fine, except of course, the part where it wasn’t working as expected in IE. After some tracing, it turns out the issue had everything to do with one line of code not returning a value: $("title").text();. To translate, the author of the code had been trying to retrieve the text of the title element using jQuery’s text function. But, turns out that doesn’t work in IE. … Continue reading →