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  • Anonymous
    (Private)  July 10, 2017 at 9:02 pm #119821

    We’re getting an incorrect set of search results for every filter we apply — But only in internet explorer. The same searches/filters work fine in Chrome and Firefox. Have you encountered this previously? Thanks.

    Trevor
    (Private)  July 10, 2017 at 9:53 pm #119832

    There are all sorts of reasons that IE could cause that, but our code tests OK in IE. Have you cleared the IE browser cache and history?

    IE has so many faults – if I can call all its quirks, omissions and non-standard handling of HTML, CSS and JS that.

    As a web site developer (personally, aside from my work here), I no longer test my sites in IE. Safari, Opera, Edge, Firefox and Chrome, yes, but not IE.

    If you can give me a search page I can test on, with a suggested search to perform and a commentary as to what will be wrong? Which versions of IE have you tested with?

    Anonymous
    (Private)  July 11, 2017 at 2:55 pm #119986

    Thanks, Trevor. We are also not fans of IE, which is why we didn’t catch this in testing 🙂

    Here’s an example:
    1. Using Chrome, I go to this page: http://triservicenursing.org/database/womenshealth/
    2. I check meta-analysis (under Study Design)
    3. When I submit the form, I get three records, which are correctly associated with meta-analysis.

    So far, when anyone anywhere tries this using Internet Explorer, they get a results page that shows every record from the database.

    This is also true when they check options other than meta-analysis.

    Anonymous
    (Private)  July 11, 2017 at 3:01 pm #119990

    Possibly related to IE’s method for evaluating form values. I will also research on my end and will let you know what I find.

    Trevor
    (Private)  July 11, 2017 at 3:05 pm #119993

    I tried it in IE11 and it works fine. I wonder what Internet Security level they have it set at? Some levels disable javascript.

    Anonymous
    (Private)  July 11, 2017 at 3:43 pm #120003

    We’re using IE11, too. It looks like the query string, ?_sfm_study_design=Meta-Analysis, is missing when we submit the form in IE. This could be a JavaScript issue. When we disable JS in chrome, we get the same results as IE. Some part of the AJAX form submission is not functioning properly in IE. We’ll find a solution and will report back what we come up with.

    Trevor
    (Private)  July 11, 2017 at 3:58 pm #120008

    The query string part is indeed set using javascript, this I can confirm. As I said, it will be the security settings. I have this in IE set to Medium. The default is higher and I am sure switches off javascript.

    It should be interesting as WordPress and both Bootstrap (V4) and Zurb Foundation (V6) have dropped support or announced that they will, for IE as they move to more heavily javascript based sites.

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