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Preview IE in Win8/64 fails / no dragable images
#1 Preview IE in Win8/64 fails / no dragable images
Posted by: Eric March | Date: 2015-01-12 13:59 | IP: IP Logged
Hello!
I'd been happy to find PsPad around 2008 as an syntax highlighting editor with an immediate preview of HTML code.
But still emulating IE9, time seems to be over…
To see CSS working, I was forced to use an another browser [Chrome, 'cause Mozillas fail gigantic dealig with path constructions «/Root-Folder/Folder», IE11 is too much part of WIN].
And now, klicking and dragging images (espcially supported by a tool by Walter Zorn) does not {longer} work. Looks to me PsPad sentence itself tod death. Using XP, this still works.
For no options to open an HTM in same open tab in Chrome, PsPad becomes a work-prevent-device since espcially a simple and quick usability was one of it's benefits.
Will there be hope?
4.5.9 does show same behviour, and it's out of discussion to do click series for a quick preview, neither using a VM for an XP as base.
Eric March
#2 Re: Preview IE in Win8/64 fails / no dragable images
Posted by: pspad | Date: 2015-01-12 17:53 | IP: IP Logged
Go to program settings / System and set IE compatibility as you need.
#3 Re: Preview IE in Win8/64 fails / no dragable images
Posted by: carbonize | Date: 2015-01-12 21:36 | IP: IP Logged
1 - If Firefox is having issues with your code then there is an issue in your code. Don't blame the web browser.
2 - Do you know how complicated it is to do an internal preview using the Chrome or Gecko engines? RJTextEd allows this but the extra downloads required are massive and not very stable.
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Carbonize
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#4 Re: Preview IE in Win8/64 fails / no dragable images
Posted by: pspad | Date: 2015-01-12 23:02 | IP: IP Logged
There is no problem to do "external" preview - you can assign any external browser and call it with your HTML file as parameter.
#5 Re: Preview IE in Win8/64 fails / no dragable images
Posted by: Eric March | Date: 2015-01-13 17:31 | IP: IP Logged
Great. Which settings do you recommend? And where are they to be found?
#6 Re: Preview IE in Win8/64 fails / no dragable images
Posted by: Eric March | Date: 2015-01-13 17:43 | IP: IP Logged
Excuse me, but - what you want to tell… teach me?
Standardly working references ("\Root\Folder") do not work locally in a Mozilla browser.
Identical page (i.e. file) load from server (Win IIS, UNIX) do work correct in taht same Mozillas.
But I do need a local preview. And I tried that on several systems. So, yes, I indeed do blame a browser!
«an internal preview»?
Hey; it'll be just enugh to define an own hihglighter and give just and olny path to browsers exe. That is not internal, but useless if those browser do not have useful command line options. An open Browser.Exe should really fast show a file sent to active tab [window…] Fast enough for a prewiew.
If IE10/11 ist not accessible via API or ohter interfaces, it must be made even easier to use external preview since IE8 does fail showing a CSS as expected and does, for this, allow no necessary control.
Eric March
#7 Re: Preview IE in Win8/64 fails / no dragable images
Posted by: Eric March | Date: 2015-01-13 17:57 | IP: IP Logged
There is no problem to do "external" preview - you can assign any external browser and call it with your HTML file as parameter.
Ah, yes? You're sure? Waht about Chrome (and IE to stay systems standard!) to open one tab after the other trying a preview? Ho often do you hit F10 in unclear cases? Too often. And too many Tabs. And no command line switch in tons I found to force to use active tab.
Mozilla fails, and IE is a not my friend since I suffer from too many mishaps in it's usability when IE is in background holding some tabs open.
I'd not ask if simple command lines (as I use for Chrome just to get it open via highlighter and assigned F9) would solve it. IE e.g. is critical (by nature…) and if I not disable useful alerts, it opens with an info box of blocked contents. So IE is really out of the race, too.
Eric March
#8 Re: Preview IE in Win8/64 fails / no dragable images
Posted by: pspad | Date: 2015-01-13 18:19 | IP: IP Logged
Eric March:Great. Which settings do you recommend? And where are they to be found?
I wrote you, go to program settings / System integration. There is IE compatibility version where you can set mode for internal PSPad preview. Which compatibility? I don't know what IE version do you use.
#9 Re: Preview IE in Win8/64 fails / no dragable images
Posted by: carbonize | Date: 2015-01-14 21:58 | IP: IP Logged
Give me an example of the code you say is causing the problem in Firefox.
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Carbonize
#10 Re: Preview IE in Win8/64 fails / no dragable images
Posted by: Eric March | Date: 2015-01-15 14:35 | IP: IP Logged
Is there anything in «"\Root\Folder"» unclear?
All references directly from root do work on servers, were parsed correctly in IE, Chrome, old Opera - but not in FireFox/SeaMonkey
C:\Action\Images\…
C:\Action\dummy.htm:
«<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./Images/CSS1.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../Action/Images/CSS2.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/Action/Images/CSS3.css">
</head>
<body>
<img src="./Images/image1.gif"
<img src="../Action/Images/image2.gif"
<img src="/Action/Images/image3.gif"
</body>
</html>»
Try this in browsers, guess which CSS will be loaded. Same on server but not local will work in FF/SM.
Eric March
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