Seriously, not a request for help, but I need to vent somewhere...Microsoft - making grown developers cry since Internet Explorer 5
I wrote a lovely password reset wizard for one of the websites at work, that cunningly usedso that I could check the submit value for each stage of the wizard while still having the text "Submit" on the submit button, and without having to mess around with extraneous hidden inputs. This works beautifully in Chrome, Firefox, Opera, IE8 and IE8 compatibility mode.Code:<button type="submit" name="submit" value="stageX">Submit</button>
Just try it with IE6 / IE7.
Does it send the clearly coded "value" for the submit button as its value? Does it 'eckers like. It sends "Submit". I was -> <- this close to actually crying into my desk. So I've had to use ordinary submit buttons and hidden inputs with the stage number after all - just because Microsoft buggered up their web browser for ten years before finally fixing it. It makes me seethe....
When most web developers started out having to battle against that kind of thing, it's no wonder there's so much bad web design and coding out there, is it.
Anyway, spleen vented. Apologies, and thanks for listening![]()


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