Unspecified error invoking method or accessing property "showWindow"

I was using Very True Things as an example of something the other day and noticed something was off in the sidebar when viewed in Internet Explorer. No surprise there, but when I dug a little deeper I discovered that it was only broken in IE7 - both IE6 and IE8 were okay.

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Picking up from my first attempt here's a more methodical approach. With somewhat more success this time.

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"At this time, support for is available only when running on Windows with the latest Firefox browser or Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or greater."

I find it quite hard to believe that the service will work okay in IE 5.0 (released in 1999!) but not in nine years newer browsers like Opera 9.5 and Safari 3.

Has it been tested at all in Opera?

Depending on the response I get I may reveal which site the original message came from.

Consider the following code:

<form action="whatever" method="POST">
<input type="hidden" name="foo" value="a very long string" />
<input type="checkbox" name="confirm" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>

In Internet Explorer (confirmed in both 6 and 7) submitting this form with the checkbox ticked results in no response from the server. (Submitting it without the checkbox ticked just brings you back to where you started.) No problem at all in Gecko-spawn or Opera.

Anyone seen anything like that before? And better still, got a solution?

Just started up Opera and look what popped up.

With a major version number jumping by that much I expect it to be able to do the laundry, record TV shows that haven't been broadcast yet and connect to the Reticulan Internet over sub-ether carrier wave.

Meanwhile, Opera 9.01 change log.

[Update] - Tim Altman from Opera said this in a newsgroup post:

Yeah.... So, unfortunately, Opera's version comparison algorithm thinks that .00 is greater than .01, so we had to trick Opera by changing the major version number, not just the minor version number. "90.1" was the closest to "9.01" and we're not likely to see that version while we're still using the current update system. We'll most likely have to do the same thing for the entire 9.x series.

Huh?

I promised a test case for my latest problem and here it is: Gecko's stubborn legend.

A few things worth noting:

1. In reality the yellow background will be a gradiant background image within each box, so I can't just apply the background to the form.

2. Opera starts out displaying the upper form as FireFox does. The addition of position: relative (with no top, left, etc.) to the styles for legend magically changes that.

3. IE7 breaks the * html hack so some further work will be needed to align the legend horizontally without breaking things in any other browser.

4. Gecko doesn't seem to apply float or display (except display: none;) to legend elements at all.

top: 2px;
top:  expression(26 + "px");

/* suspect CSS: potential scripting: expression */

div.title { top: 26px; }	
head:first-child+body div.title {top: 2px;}