{"id":59,"date":"2005-02-09T10:56:46","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T10:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2005\/02\/ie-file-upload-validation"},"modified":"2006-04-30T23:47:37","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T23:47:37","slug":"ie-file-upload-validation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2005\/02\/ie-file-upload-validation","title":{"rendered":"IE File Upload Validation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At last,\r\n Microsoft have finally fixed an extraordinarily annoying broken feature\tof <abbr title=\"Internet Explorer\">IE<\/abbr> introduced with Windows XP Service Pack 2. The problem, for which I previously published a <a href=\"http:\/\/lachy.id.au\/blogs\/log\/2004\/09\/validating-xhtml-with-ie-using-file\" title=\"Validating (X)HTML with IE using File Upload\">temporary solution<\/a> and which has been experienced and documented by many since at least September last year, has been resolved. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/Bugs\/Public\/show_bug.cgi?id=838\" title=\"Upload Validation doesn't work on IE6 SP2 (WinXP SP2)\">W3C\u2019s\r\n\tBug 838<\/a> tracked and discussed this issue up until its resolution that has\r\n\tcome with\r\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/security\/bulletin\/ms05-014.mspx\" title=\"Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (867282)\">Microsoft\u2019s\r\nSecurity Bulletin MS05-014<\/a>. The patch is available through <a href=\"http:\/\/windowsupdate.microsoft.com\/\">Windows\r\nUpdate<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The <abbr title=\"World Wide Web Consortium\">W3C<\/abbr> <abbr title=\"Quality Assurance\">QA<\/abbr> team\r\n\thave published a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/QA\/2005\/01\/Validator-IE_WinXP_SP2.html\" title=\"Validation by file upload and Internet Explorer on WinXP SP2\">document\r\n\t\texplaining the issue<\/a> and solutions,\r\n\twhich has been linked from the <a href=\"http:\/\/validator.w3.org\/\">MarkUp Validator<\/a>.\r\n\tHopefully, this now means the continuing flow of error reports to www-validator\r\n\twill cease, or at least slow down. Of course my recommended solution has\r\n\tbeen, and always will be, to use an <a href=\"http:\/\/getfirefox.com\/\" title=\"Firefox\">alternate\r\n\tbrowser<\/a> that does not suffer\r\n\tfrom such fatal bugs. This is especially the case for user\u2019s of the validator\r\n\tsince most will be web developers that really need to develop within standards\r\n\tcompliant environments; however, the persistent use of <abbr title=\"Internet Explorer\">IE<\/abbr> among\r\n\tmany developers is one thing I fail to understand.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At last, Microsoft have finally fixed an extraordinarily annoying broken feature of IE introduced with Windows XP Service Pack 2. The problem, for which I previously published a temporary solution and which has been experienced and documented by many since at least September last year, has been resolved. The W3C\u2019s Bug 838 tracked and discussed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2005\/02\/ie-file-upload-validation\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IE File Upload Validation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,15,7,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}