I was looking for help for IE, like most days, so it goes. Thank you nettuts for yet again, saving me!

http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/javascript-and-the-dom-lesson-2/

Exactly what I was looking for:

#     e = e || window.event; 
#      
#     // Preventing the default action of an event: 
#     if (e.preventDefault) { 
#         e.preventDefault(); 
#     } else { 
#         e.returnValue = false; 
#     } 

This time the issue was a small warning for ie concerning the (e) event on the DHTML animation on the home page here at joomla-webmasters.com. I discovered about the same time there was something messed up with the rokgzip plugin - had some funk going on and was conflicting with the rokweather module. Between the 3 of them, it was like running in out of a sudden storm only the door is locked and you can't get in. That is to say, if you are a browser called IE8.

I reinstalled rokgzip and that fixed that conflict - not sure how it lost it's way. I'm positive I had just reinstalled to 1.3 when it came out. The tell tale sign was in the plugin info - the author information, date, and version had funky @'s in the print, where it should have been reading v1.3, et al.

Now, if the RSS link stays put on the home page, I'll call today successful and move back to viral scanning that phpbb3 site that has been spam attacked yet again....1/2 assed injection of some form, I found encrypted editor.php files in the template directory, lovely. I'll keep you posted.

In the immortal words of Gilda Radner, "It's always something".

Just tried this code in the head of a DHTML script, supposed to fix IE8:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />

It locked up the DHTML animation I was running, and made the browser run slower, if you can imagine that. Have I mentioned today how much I despise IE browsers? Probably, but don't plan on writing for a 3rd, Chrome. I'll give Chrome 2 things: ease of use and speed.