Parallels Coherence mode busts IE’s onmouseover…
Huh. So. Parallels. Yeah… So if one were running XP on OSX via Parallels and one were testing some rollovers one might encounter this problem. The problem is that under Coherence mode IE doesn’t seem to actually register mouseover events unless a mouse button is held down - which is both annoying and wrong.
That is, suppose you had a table and each tr had a mouseover event handler. The handler would not be fired unless you were holding a mouse button down or scrolling the window with the scroll wheel - the latter of which leads to vaguely unpredictable results. This isn’t a general Parallels problem because if you view it in single window mode it works just fine. Presumably this because there’s some kind of black magic going on to make the mouse both a windows and an osx mouse in Coherence.
That’s awesome. I’m not just saying that because I hypothetically lost a couple hours tracking down the problem and only noticed that it wasn’t broken when I had to check something on my little windows laptop. Because, hypothetically speaking, if that were to happen I’d have to pick up my computer and hurl it from my window and that wouldn’t do anyone any good. Hypothetically speaking I am currently cool as a cucumber.
November 12th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Aha. So that’s what was going on there. I think I like baby owls better.
November 13th, 2007 at 9:25 am
Yes. Baby owls is much better than this. Of course baby owls much better than most things…