WebBrowser blocking adsense ad code in vb6 WebBrowser - html

Currently in vb6 project with WebBrowser i am facing a problem. I want to show adsense ad in my app so i create a html page and put the file in server(adsense approved) and I tried to navigate the page from vb6 project with WebBrowser. but everytime its showing some script error. What to do to fix it? please help

The problem is probably because the Browser Control runs in document mode 7, so it's essentially emulating IE 7. You can override that with registry entries, but those need to be made on a per application (appname.exe) basis.
A better solution usually is to include the document mode meta tag in your html: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">.
SO question with an extensive answer descriptions on that meta tag: What does <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> do?

Point 1: The WebBrowser control in VB (and later Visual Studio) is not a fully functioning browser like we expect from Chrome, IE, Firefox etc. It has severe limitations.
Point 2: I doubt very much that VB6 has any knowledge of AdSense.
You would probably be better off using VB6 to launch the default browser on the user's computer with relevant parameters and let it deal with whatever page you throw at it.
You would probably be better off at least moving to VB 2008 - there are problems with conversion, but they are do-able and from VB 2008 you can easily move on eventually to more modern variants.

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Should HTML meta tags be avoided for Edge?

When one of our users tries to open our site in Edge, it instead opens in IE. I understand there are some settings on their machine that may trigger this based on my research (group policies, intranet sites, compatibility modes, etc.)
In looking, I found this MS page https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/deploy/emie-to-improve-compatibility
It says that "You must continue using IE11 if web apps use... <meta> tags". I don't know if this means that any and all <meta> tags will trigger the "open it in IE" behavior, or if they're just recommending it.
I also thought things like <meta charset="UTF-8" /> were highly important. We also use a <meta> tag to indicate viewport dimensions/scaling/etc.
Should I avoid all <meta> tags? Or just <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">? I need to prevent the site from kicking over to IE from my end of things without relying on whatever the user has done to their settings (if possible).
I would like to know if your website is intranet site, if so, since Edge has a group policy
​which opens all the intranet sites in IE, you could try the following steps:
Open Local Group Policy Editor.
Select "Administrative Templates".
Select "Windows Components".
Select "Microsoft Edge". Once you double click "Microsoft edge" you will see different settings & their current state.
Select "Send all intranet sites to Internet Explorer 11" and then "Disabled" it.
Quit Edge & re-start (if required you might re-start your PC as well).

Way to force Chrome to use <title> tag data instead of writing address?

Is there a way to force Google Chrome to use the <title> tag data instead of writing the web page address?
Eg. <title> </title> is ignored by Chrome and the browser writes "[domain].com/index.html" on the tab instead of the expected space. The problem occurs whether I use an actual space or the HTML character code. Other major browsers correctly read the title data as a space.
So does anyone know if there are any other invisible characters that Chrome will actually "display"? I've tried a number of other &nb__; characters to no avail. I'm looking for an HTML solution if possible, because I access this site on a number of computers and I won't be able to install extensions in every situation.
And before I get any flack about having a blank title, this is a personal website I made for my own use, so I'm not worried about accessibility or other user's experience, just my own. I recently switched from Firefox to Chrome and this is really bugging me.

Why can't a datauri img be copied to the clipboard?

I have struck a strange issue. I have some images on the page which are rendered from Data URI's, and I would like to enable my users to copy them to the clipboard.
However, for some reason, neither Firefox nor Chrome seems to allow me to do that.
As an example take this page:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Clipboard Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<img id="target" src="data:image/png;base64,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available here if you want to try it.
Right clicking on the image and choosing 'Copy Image' does not seem to work for Chrome, Firefox or IE11. However right click and 'Save Image As...' does work.
Since it seems consistent across all browsers, I am assuming there must be a deliberate decision not to allow such images to be copied. Is it related to CORS - since the data URI has a different origin?
Is there anything I can do to allow these images to be copied?
The background to this is that I am trying to make it possible for users of my web application to copy SVG images onto the clipboard. I am able to convert the SVG images into PNG data URIs, which I can even save on the user's computer, but I cannot seem to get them onto the clipboard. If there are other / better ways to do this then please feel free to point them out instead!
UPDATE It seems this might be related to the receiving application rather than the browser. After seeing the comments from #Mi-Creativity I re-tested using additional applications. Pasting such images into MS Paint does seem to work, while pasting them into MS Office applications does not. Unfortunately for me that is the main use case of my users.
I installed the inside clipboard tool and used that to compare data on the clipboard when using a data URI vs. a normal HTTP URI for the image. Using Chrome, in both cases there are four formats placed on the clipboard:
CF_BITMAP
CF_DIB
CF_DIBV5
HTML
The first three are identical in content. The HTML version is different - they contain snippets of the HTML document, one with a data URI and the other with a HTTP URI.
Armed with this additional information I did some more googling and found this similar previously reported problem.
It seems the likely cause is that MS Office applications are attempting to paste in the HTML version, which fails because Office does not understand data URIs, and ignoring the more useful bitmap versions available on the clipboard.
Users can work around this by using the 'paste-special' option, although it is a lot fiddlier than I would like.

Intranet Site doesnt display in IE9 (Intermittent)

I have an ASP MVC 3 website which is used on the intranet. It uses Windows Authentication and I've noticed sometimes on just a few user's machines (they all use IE9), it just doesnt load and the user is presented with a white screen or "Internet Explorer cannot display this page" message.
I've set <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1" /> in my <head> tag and I've also unchecked the box "Display intranet sites in compatibility mode" under tools > Compatibility View Settings in IE9.
I'm running out of ideas as to what is causing this issue. It's intermittent too which is all the more puzzling. It works fine on everyone else's machine (some even use IE9 and the rest use IE8).
Since you're using ASP.NET MVC3, I'd strongly recommend installing Glimpse. It'll help you see what's happening on the server when the requests fail. Granted, you'd probably want to configure it to require authentication, but it can also be turned on and off in the web.config if you just need to it be available temporarily.

.png images display in IE8 alone but not inside a page

It's been a while since I did serious web development. Now I meet a host of brand new problems I'm no longer familiar with..
I have some .png images for various icons in my web page. What I find is that whenever I edit these images, they stop working inside a page in IE8. That is, they (usually) display OK when I first open the page, then are replaced by the placeholder icon on refresh. Sometimes, some of the icons display and others, with the same src, don't.
My image tags are nothing fancy, typically:
<img src="images/misc/smallreport.png" alt="Report" />
When I right-click an icon in the page and select "properties", protocol, type, address and size are shown as "Not Available", and dimensions are incorrect (size of the placeholder, I bet).
If I open the images directly in IE (ie. not within the page), they work just fine.
I have used Paint.NET to edit the images, but have also tried saving them with Paint.
Right now, I am working right off the hard disk (ie. not through a web server). And, oh yes, none of this happens in Google Chrome.
What's going on here?
check the path to the file is correct - can we see the tag please.
Well, we learn something new every day..
I mentioned that I'm running this directly off the harddisk? Now, it turns out the html page (which I had gotten off a coworker) was blocked "to help protect my computer", as Windows does.
This is no big surprise, lots of files I'm working with originate on other computers, and I usually don't worry much about it (except with executables, which won't run until unblocked).
It seems, however, that when IE8 loads such a blocked HTML file, its security settings adjust somehow, and - well, I can only guess at the details, but as soon as I right-clicked the HTML file, selected Properties and clicked the "unblock" button, the problem went away.
Something similar happened to me once, I tried hard to find what was wrong, then I realized I was saving (from Photoshop) the file as PSD but with extension .png. Make sure you're not doing the same.
Also:
Clear temporary Internet files
Verify that the Show Pictures option has not been turned off
Make sure that the Toggle Images.exe Web accessory is not present and disabling images
Make sure that a third-party Internet security, firewall, or cookie-blocking program is not causing the problem
Enable the Auto-Select encoding option
Source
It might be that the website you have browse has a lack of support
for an IE browser. IE is a nightmare for all web developers & Web designers.
It might be the developer of that website didn't care for an IE display because
of IE issues. Perhaps IE is trying to create a web standard to increase their
sales and marketing strategy. That's why don't care the modern Web development standard.
Why Chrome or Firefox or Safari, it's a free anyway.