Bing maps control not rendering properly in IE7 - SharePoint 2010 - internet-explorer-7

I've created a SharePoint 2010 WebPart that pulls lat/long info from a list and displays pins in a map. I'm having a problem where the map does not render properly in IE7. Even when I'm not using any pins and just showing a basic map. Here's a screenshot: Screenshot
I've simplified the code as much as possible and am still getting the error. here's my sample code:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ecn.dev.virtualearth.net/mapcontrol/mapcontrol.ashx?v=6.2"></script>
<div id='rowanMap' style="position:relative; width:100%; height:400px; float:none;"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
function GetMap() {
var map = null;
map = new VEMap('rowanMap');
map.SetCredentials("[Redacted]");
// pins added programatically here if they exist, but problem occurs without them as well.
map.LoadMap();
}
GetMap();
</script>
This is being added to the page as a visual webpart.
I know it's not my version of ie7, because this demo works when loaded in a second tab: http://www.microsoft.com/maps/isdk/ajax/
Again, firefox, chrome, ie8, ie9 all work properly.
Any ideas?

I figured out a workaround. It seems that the problem is that the getmap() function runs before the page finishes loading, so adding a timeout solves the problem:
setTimeout("GetMap()", 50);
I tried using the window.onload method, but it overwrote some necessary sharepoint javascript. Luckily the timeout works even when it is very short.

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WinApp 8.1 (WinJS) App with AngularJS

I am currently working on a prototyp on for testing the usability of several frameworks when developing a Win8.1 WinJS app. During the development I discovered a very strange behaviour with forms.
This is the vanilla form of an freshly created WinJS App:
What you can see is a cursor within the inputbox and half of the the copy button. Since the drop-in virtual keyboard would overlay the inputbox, it automatically scrolls the content upwards.
Now I include AngularJS 1.3.1:
Now, there is no cursor, the copy button doesn't appear and the drop-in keybord actually overlays the inputbox. It is actually not possible to change the position of the non visible cursor, so I can only prepend characters to any existing text.
I analyzed the DOM tree of both versions:
Vanilla:
Angular 1.3.1 included:
What we can see is that angular nests a second level head within the head including some weird ass css definitions. Furthermore another body tag is created within the head element. I tried to remove those after loading angular using the following snippet:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function () {
$('head > head, head > body').remove();
});
</script>
This solves the problem but now, ng-show, ng-hide directives do not work anymore.
I can observe this problem only when using AngularJS in a WinJS API. I searched the internet but I didn't find any clues on that behaviour - there are actually several blogs out there describing the process of using AngularJS within a WinJS application without mentioning any such issues.
Do you guys have any idea whats going on here?
I see you're including winstore-jscompat.js... Please see this issue:
https://github.com/MSOpenTech/winstore-jscompat/issues/8
..which is fixed in this fork:
https://github.com/ClemMakesApps/winstore-jscompat/blob/master/winstore-jscompat.js
Note that this will probably be pulled into the main project at some point so this issue should go away "soon".

IE 11 doesn't render masonry js properly

Latest Update:
This got fixed in the new masonry version.
Original Post:
I have an AngularJS website with Bootstrap3 style, which works fine in Chrome, Safari and Firefox, but not in IE (and I thought those days would be over).
I use the Masonry-plugin to display some tiles. The first time I open the page IE11 sticks the tiles together. I believe it is because of some problem with the padding in bootstrap. When trying to debug the application or only show variable contents on console.log everything works fine. Also after reloading the page everything is rendered as expected, it is really only on the first time the page is accessed.
I've noticed that Masonry's website and examples work with IE so I'm trying to figure out what they have different.
The above mentioned problems also occur in IE10 - I don't have any information about IE9 and we don't intend to support IE8 or before.
Update: I've noticed that the masonry website doesn't use paddings (like bootstrap does) but margins instead, and indeed when I remove paddings and add margins, it works. However the question remains - Why doesn't it work with paddings?
Update 2: I have a working test which shows the error. It is quite extensive, and can be accessed here: http://server.grman.at/ie11-intro.html
It shows that the problem only occurs in IE, if the some script (probably the masonry library) is pre-loaded on a page before and afterwards used.
Here a screenshot of how it should look from Chrome:
And here a screenshot of how it looks for me in IE11:
Last Update: Yes, it's the masonry script, I've created a second intro page: http://server.grman.at/ie11-intro2.html which doesn't preload the masonry script and it works, now the quesion is - WHY?
After playing around with your demo a bit, I found that loading masonry.pkgd.min.js before Bootstrap and custom styles would resolve the issue for me. Something in Masonry's setup is breaking re-navigations in Internet Explorer - though I don't have specifics at this time.
Move the masonry script tag to the top of your document, above Bootstrap and your styles, and you should find that the issue is resolved.
The obvious and fast answer (as I'm not sure if the error is fixable in the masonry script in the first place) is, to remove a reference to the masonry script whenever you are not going to use it in the website.
Update:
This got fixed in the newer masonry version

jQuery works in FireFox, but not in Chrome with Google Sites Gadget

Please excuse my ignorance, but I am totally new to jQuery, HTML, Javascript, and so on. Network backround.
I am inserting a html file into a Google Gadget for a Google site. What it is supposed to do is display 4 boxes that reveal a partial picture and a button to expand the picture. When you click on the button the box is supposed to enlarge and reveal the whole picture plus some text. This works fine in Firefox when I have this line:
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
but not in chrome.
I have uploaded all of these necessary files in order this to work in my Google Site to my Google Drive. I have shared the jQuery.js file in my drive and copied it to my html file. When I replace the line above with this line:
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://docs.google.com/a/chartwellreit.ca/uc?id=0B7EcQSX7GqjAREtlOXBOQmVRaUE"></script>
It works fine in Chrome, but not in FireFox.
Please let me know if you need anymore info.
Thanks!
https://developers.google.com/speed/libraries/devguide#jquery
To load a hosted library, copy and paste the HTML snippet for that library (shown below) in your web page. For instance, to load jQuery, embed this snippet:
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
snippet in your web page.

Silverlight app disappears on page refresh in IE10

UPDATE: There is a workaround to the problem. It is to force IE10 into compatibility mode by including one of the following meta tags:
<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=7" />
<meta http-equiv="x-ua-compatible" content="IE=8" />
This is not really a perfect solution for various reasons, but it eliminates the problem at least.
ORIGINAL QUESTION:
I realised a couple of months ago that there is a problem with our Silverlight application in IE10 on Windows 8 (I have not tried the IE10 preview for Windows 7). When the asp.net page hosting our SL app first loads everything works fine and the application loads as expected. If I refresh the page immediately, it also reloads as expected. But: If I focus the Silverlight application by clicking in it and THEN hit F5, it just goes blank. It is like the plugin disappears completely. If I trace the requests using Fiddler I can see that no request is issued for the xap file. I have been hoping that this would be fixed in a patch release for IE10, but so far nothing has changed. I cannot find any information about this when I try googling it. It seems highly unlikely that I should be the first person to discovered it and I am quite surprised that I am not finding more information. To reproduce the issue:
Create a new Silverlight application
Add some sort of content to MainPage.xaml, like a Button or whatever
Run the app in IE10 (on Win8)
Click anywhere within the Silverlight application. This is just to focus the plugin.
Refresh the page (F5)
Result: The Silverlight application does not load and the page is blank.
A few observations:
After the steps above, no amount of refreshing will bring the application back.
After the steps above, if I re-enter the url into the address bar and hit Enter, the application loads as expected.
If I enable Compatibility View in IE, the app also loads as expected. Nothing I do will reproduce the bug when compatibility view is enabled.
Now to my questions:
Has anyone else observed this behaviour?
If so, have you found a workaround?
I'm seeing the same issue with my Silverlight application in IE 10.
I've tried adding the IE 8 compatibility meta tag suggested above, but this does not resolve the problem consistently. It seems to work only intermittently, after say every 5th refresh attempt?!
The only way I can see to work around this consistently is to force the Browser Mode into "IE 10 Compatibility View", and I don't think this can be done via page content (meta tag, etc.)? I've had to remove the IE 8 compatibility meta tag so that the "Compatibility View" button is available in the address bar, and then ask users to click the compatibility button, which is then remembered for the site. This results in the browser entering Browser Mode: "IE 10 Compat View" and Document Mode: "IE7 Standards". The refresh behaviour then works consistently as expected and as it used to.
This is a big problem for us. We've built our Silverlight app such that the browser refresh button is used to refresh pages/content within the app (the users stays logged in, etc.). It's really bad that we have to ask users to set our site to run in compatibility mode for the refresh functionality to work as expected.
Note that this still works as expected in Chrome. It seems silly that we might need to recommend that our users use Chrome because of this issue!
UPDATE:
A workaround for this seems to be to always load the Silverlight object into its hosting page dynamically using JavaScript.
E.g.
function onLoad() {
var silverlightControlHost = document.getElementById("silverlightControlHost");
silverlightControlHost.innerHTML = "<object ...
UPDATE 2:
Here is the latest code I use to work around this issue:
...
function unloadSilverlight() {
document.getElementById("silverlightControlHost").innerHTML = "";
}
function focusOnSilverlight() {
document.getElementById("silverlightObject").focus();
}
function onLoad() {
window.onbeforeunload = unloadSilverlight;
setTimeout(focusOnSilverlight);
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload=" onLoad() ">
...
I still had issues with the solution presented by Chris.
This works perfectly for me though:
window.onbeforeunload = function () {
var silverlightControlHost = document.getElementById("silverlightControlHost");
silverlightControlHost.innerHTML = "";
}
I solved the problem in a very easy way. I Wrote a javascript code at the end of the page (or after the object tag in where is your silverlight app) and set the focus to another element, for example, a link. Example:
<object id="silverlightHostControl">...bla bla bla</object>
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
var shc = document.getElementById("silverlightHostControl");
document.getElementById("myLink").focus();
</script>
The shc var is useless, I put just for clarify. Remember: your javascript code must set the focus to another (but focusable) object AFTER the silverlight app object tag was parsed, which means your js code is writen after silverlight app object.
In answer to your question #1, this is happening with our Silverlight apps as well. The only workarounds are 1) restart the browser or 2) switch to compatibiity mode.
It apparently is a bug in ie10.
Thanks for all workarounds solution but this is obviously a bug with Silverlight plugin.
We have raised few tickets directly with Internet explorer development team and they said the issue is from an external problem. It is not a good answer from Microsoft.
Anyway, this time our developers raised ticket through Silverlight development team which still waiting for their response. To get a good response from them, we need to get more people who are facing this issue.
You can vote this issue from Connect website which is Microsoft's official bug reporting platform.
The link to our ticket is: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/789004/ie10-shows-blank-page-upon-refreshing-silverlight-app
Cheers
Moh
Yeah i am also facing same issue with one my application. If i opens help of my application in IE 10 then i have to refresh the page each time to view the contents.
I have two workaround for this issue:
1. Press ALT key once
2. Open IE in compatible mode

Google plus one button not showing

I'm trying to add a Google +1 button to my website.
I have followed the instructions here:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/+1/button/index.html
This the code for my webpage:
<html>
<head>
<title>
Why won't it appear?
</title>
<!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag -->
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>
Example title
</h1>
<!-- Place this tag where you want the +1 button to render -->
<g:plusone size="tall" href="http://www.example.com/"></g:plusone>
</body>
</html>
As you can see, I've followed their instructions exactly, and yet it does not appear. I've tried it on Chrome, Firefox and IE8 (all on Windows XP). I'm just opening the webpage from my local system.
Interestingly I can see it working here http://www.satinbow.co.uk/xxtest.html
Can anyone solve the mystery?
Update / clues
When the page is stored on my system locally, it doesn't work (hard refreshing didn't fix it either.)
But I've put the page here: dl.dropbox.com/u/6920023/test2.html and it seems to work there.
It would be really cool know what's going on :)
I think it's because when it's local (not webserver) browser block the JS script (that's hosted externally) to prevent security breach. That's why it doesn't work
Link: http://ejohn.org/blog/tightened-local-file-security/
Another thing to check for is whether you have any ad blockers active. These can disable the +1 button and move the iframe containing the button out of the screen.
Working on my open source project, http://code.google.com/p/gwt-socialmedia,
i have discovered another reason that can cause the +1 button not to render: You forgot to define the "URL to +1": It must be a valid URL to an accessible website (so http://localhost won't work for i.e.).
Indeed, the PlusOne API seems to connect to the site URL, in order to get some metadata about it (like the description, title, etc)
If you don't define the URL, Google will send you an error HTTP 400 (Bad Request), with the internal message : "The requested URL was not found on this server. "
and the button will not appear...
Hope it helps!
Due to browser security(as mentioned in one of the answer) it would not display the button. Still to display google plus buttons when your file is local use local web server(WAMP/XAMPP) or you may use PHP local server https://www.sitepoint.com/taking-advantage-of-phps-built-in-server/ to host your file on your computer and you will see the button displayed in your file.

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