IE 8.0 and Google Mail

This is another of those troubling things I have seen with IE 8.0,RC1.
You too might have observed this while replying to an email you have
received or forwarding one.

The first figure shows the email I wrote to myself.

The second figure shows what will happen when I tried to forward the letter I received. The letter writing region expands without constraint and the vertical scroll bar starts dancing up and down.

Report Manager on the Current Browsers

The latest version of Reporting Services that gets installed when you
install SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition (not the RTM) has a slightly different
looking interface. This interface's look is slightly different in different
browsers.

As you can see they are different and surely Google Chrome has the wierdest look.

Firefox 3.0 and Safari

 

Google Chrome

 

IE 8.0 RC1

IE 8.0 misbehaving!!!

I am a blogger and I need to login securely to see my account. It was fine all along. Today, I am getting multiple security windows. No matter whether you say 'Yes' or 'No' you will be returned to the same login page. First i thought there was something amiss at Google's end. Finally I gave up on IE 8.0 and returned to FireFox. It's OK now.

Another problem noted was the slow response. When you click on a link on the page it takes a long time to load. If you open a new tab and come back to the previous it loads faster as if there is a hidden lever. Very annoying.

IE 8.0 and Data Source Obejcts

Tabular data control TDC is a data source object which can be placed on an HTML page and bound to some simple data such as csv file. It is supposed to support the DHTML DOM model. The object reference is as follows:



<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:333C7BC4-460F-11D0-BC04-0080C7055A83"

ID=dsoComposer WIDTH=0 HEIGHT=0>

<PARAM NAME="DataURL" VALUE="composer.csv">

</OBJECT>

In IE 8.0 this does not seem to work with or without Activex enabled. The compatibility switch also does not make a difference

Removing a SQL Server 2008 installation

I had an evaluation copy that had expired. I wanted to install a new evaluation copy for further testing. I removed the existing programs (Database Engine, Analysis Server, Reporting Services ) but left the shared items. The new named instance was installed; found that I could start and stop it, but I could not use the Management Studio as it came up with "the evaulation has expired message".

I went back to Add/Remove and tried to repair the shared items. The " the evaulation has expired message "message still remained. Then I removed the shared items and installed the shared items anew. This also did not fix the problem.

Finally, I removed all the items completly. Rebooted the computer. Then installed the whole program once again. This time it worked all right and the installation was success.

I think it is best to remove the whole lot and save a whole lot of trouble.

Read this Microsoft article before uninstalling the product:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143412.aspx