I came across a rather curious IE6 bug today on the RBC Structured Notes Web site we developed here at iStudio.
First, a bit of a background. The RBC SN Web site, among other things, displays Notes pages to investors that gives very detailed breakdowns on the current market conditions. These are all listed in a table that has some input fields at the top so that you can filter the results to suit your needs. What we found was that in IE6, pressing the <enter> key on any of the input fields caused the browser to completely freeze. I mean nothing was clickable. You had to close it down and then re-open it again in order to regain control.
The culprit? No submit button. Every other browser had no problem with this, but trust good ‘ole IE6 to completely make a mess of itself. It has no problem if the input fields are not wrapped in a <form>, but if you neglect to provide a submit button…
Now almost all of the time you’ll want to have a submit button, but in this case we wanted the results to filter without the need of an extra click.
One hour of time I’ll never have back in figuring out this problem.
