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NetTalk Web Server => Web Server - Ask For Help => Topic started by: John Fligg on November 10, 2012, 04:53:21 AM

Title: Windows 8
Post by: John Fligg on November 10, 2012, 04:53:21 AM

I have just noticed that when using Windows8 (the tiled version of IE9) when you open a form it opens but no fields are displayed. It appears as a small window with just the window title.

Are then any workarounds for this?

Thanks

John

Title: Re: Windows 8
Post by: sstockst on November 10, 2012, 01:36:41 PM

John,

I can confirm this behavior with the current version on NetTalk 6.

Specifically, Windows 8 has two Internet Explorer versions, IE10 and another version specifically for Metro mode.

IE10 is behaving normally. The Metro browser is not.

Thanks for reporting this!

Steve Stockstill
Data Equity

Title: Re: Windows 8
Post by: John Fligg on November 11, 2012, 01:43:40 AM

Yes the tiled version is a strange beast. Play something in iPlayer and then switch the focus and the video mutes and stops playing. Nothing to do with NT6 but it does have some strange behaviour.

Anyway IMHO this is a very serious problem considering W8 has been out in preview mode for so long. Hopefully Bruce will get to grips with this quickly as it has the potential of breaking all apps in Windows 8 which is now public.

I suspect the response will be change browsers but why should a user do that? If they are using W8 and it comes with IE10 in tile mode then that's what they should be able to use.

Sorry not criticising but this really is a very serious problem.

Thanks

John

Title: Re: Windows 8
Post by: bshields on November 12, 2012, 12:04:47 AM

Don't expect this will be helpful, but just tested my current project on Win8 (both IE10s) and it all worked and looked fine.

But i am on NT 6.37.

Title: Re: Windows 8
Post by: John Fligg on November 12, 2012, 12:19:59 AM

I am on version 6.42

So it would be helpful if perhaps Bruce could weigh in here and confirm if this behaviour has been fixed or not as we do seem to have conflicting views.

Remember all is fine until you open a form (in my case with drop downs) when the form just shows the window title and no controls.

Thanks

John

Title: Re: Windows 8
Post by: Bruce on November 12, 2012, 09:10:08 PM

I'll let you know when I have some data.

Cheers
Bruce