check the settings for internet temporary files and make sure the radio button for new file check is not set to automatic.

thanks nelson, but it is on "automatic". I tried other settings - no difference.

It seems that the IE cannot load the dojo JS files..

Automatic means Microsoft makes its best guess to determine if a page needs to be fetched from cache vs. anew.

What I meant to say is - set this setting to "every visit to the page". At least, when we wrote ajax apps, having it set to automatic made our web 2.0 apps act "weird"

I tried "every visit to the page" - no luck, either.

IE costs customers a lot of money in web development. I think there would be more backlash on MS if more companies knew how horrible the browser is.

Good article:

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Could it be something simple like a security preference that disables javascript ?

Of course another possibility is a 'browser helper object', some rouge toolbar that has a script blocker in it or even a virus BHO.

Declan, unfortunately not, there is no simple solution.

We tested all security settings - no luck.

I disabled all add ons (there was an antivirus adddon) - no luck.

Virus is unlikely, since the machine is in a corporate environment with professinal antivirus in place.

In the company we found another machine which has the same OS and IE version, but on which it works. The customer tries to nail down the differences between the both machines.

IE7 on XP and IE7 on Vista are a slight different.

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Frank, thanks for the link - we already tested on XP and Vista, without difference - runs on both at our site.

let the IE6/7/8 deathmarch begin!

We are also facing that issue with partial updates not working on IE7 (sometimes). It seems that the information which part should be updated is not calculated ($$xspsubmitid is null or not an object).

Dennis, but does it work on one IE on one machine fine and not at all on another?

Microsoft are a huge company.. and you would be right to think they would have "brazillions" of developers. But I met someone recently who worked in Microsoft and said that of the 80,000 employees, less than 750 produce software. Considering the huge range of s/w they produce, this means there aren't alot of coders producing product. But they may have tonnes of support people. But having said that, they may not need so many support people if they properly write and test applications in the first place...

Julian, I can reproduce it on other workstations, too. Time to do some more debugging... :(

Hi!

I know it's been a year since you guys discussed this, but I've now stumbled upon a problem that seems to be related to this posting. In IE7, I get the error "'document.forms[...].$$xspsubmitid' is null or not an object" when I try to save the changes in a Notes Document from web, while the page is working just fine in Firefox.

Further details are provided at { Link } !

Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

question is: which Domino version do you use? If 8.5.0, that that's the problem -> upgrade to 8.5.1.