I was doing a japanese shopping site and coded a small escape function in javascript which is also works for shift-jis encoding. The native function screws up the encoding. It worked prefectly, and I went on coding. I was doing all the development in firefox and suddendly the login function stopped working in IE(Actually not stopped working, It never worked in IE). The problem was that I used the javascript string as an array of char but in IE, it doesn’t support that. If I want to access a character I have to use the charAt function. When I searched in the Internet, I found that this is so common but just blogged it anyway.

If you are a web developer/designer you should have surely checked your site in popular browsers. Specially if you are using css. I always used to use only firefox for the development stages and then later test the sites in IE. But after that i came to aware about the mozilla plugin “IE tab”, it became easier. I started to test the site with IE in the development stages. But recently Nayana have found out that IE doesn’t emulate the Internet Explorer exactly. I dont know what is happening there even when it is using same ActiveX control. However, if you are using IE tab, be careful - just a small warning.