Wednesday, 13 September 2006
I love IE7 already
Mercury Interactive's piece-of-shit, ActiveX control masquerading as a "defect tracker," Test Director, does not load (is not supported, shits itself, however you want to say it) in IE7. I can't wait for Micros~1 to push IE7 in an update and blow up our QA management enviroment.
Maybe we'll switch to a real defect tracker, like JIRA or Trac or, hell, bugzilla. Anything other that what MI has to offer.
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Run this in the address bar, when TestDirector shows the message it cannot load:
javascript:void(eval("document.writeln('<BODY bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" link=\"#0000FF\" vlink=\"#800080\" topmargin=\"0\" leftmargin=\"0\">');write_ie_object();"))
Hey,
The workaround is easy, just go to TDBIN and modify check line for IE version in start_a.htm as following:
var fMSIE3456 = (ua.lastIndexOf('MSIE 3.0') != -1) || (ua.lastIndexOf('MSIE 4.0') != -1) || (ua.lastIndexOf('MSIE 5.0') != -1) || (ua.lastIndexOf('MSIE 5.5') != -1) || (ua.lastIndexOf('MSIE 6.0') != -1) || (ua.lastIndexOf('MSIE 7.0') != -1);
now IE7 will work!
Yeah, we've got the same problem at our place.
I've just discovered some good news though. The new Firefox 2.0 version does work with TestDirector.
It even fixed an annoying bug you got with IE6 and multiple monitors - drop down menu's appeared on the wrong screen.
Hope this helps.