Thursday, June 9, 2011

IE Annoyance - "Do you want to Only show secure elements?"

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I got nothing against Internet Explorer but this is really annoying. Have you ever come across websites where you get system popup window asking you permission to display non-secure elements on secure website? going from IE 7 to 8, they changed the message of popup. With IE 7, it used to be something in the line of "Do you want to display both secure and non-secure elements?". With IE 8, they changed it to "Do ONLY want to display secure elements?" With IE 9, it now displays a notice message that looks like part of website at the bottom center.

Dear Microsoft, stop confusing people and start helping people!!!!

How does this apply to us NetSuite folks? You guys might already have fix for this on your webstores but I just recently found this as an issue.

If you are like me, you are most likely using small part or all elements of jQuery. You may also use external form to process customer registration data.If this is you, you may have come across this IE annoyance during your cross browser testing.

What does this error mean? Well, simply put, your URL is https:// but content of the page contains none https elements. Most likely it'll be reference to external image, javascript and css.

Solution? Tell your customer to read the message before clicking.

Better solution? Change reference to these elements to https.
Every time you upload a script or an image to NetSuite, you will notice that NetSuite provides you with several different URLs for your uploded items.

I just realized why they provide these. It's to help you avoid IE's confusing messages. =)

Go to Documents in your NetSuite account and drill down to folder you uploaded your item. Click on Edit to view details of that items you'll notice these different URLs.

Hope this helps... if not, hope I've given you something to laugh about.

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