IE9 and orca forums

I noticed that recently the new posts in my forums completely stopped.  Going in to check the forums I found I could no longer post either.  They work fine if I use Chrome, Firefox, Seamonkey, or Opera, but I get the following from IE9.

Please enter from 5 to 128000 symbols

I have checked this from 5 computers at 3 locations, I get the same on IE9 on all systems, other browsers work fine.

Clearly the issue is the browser, I am also having problems with many other sites which are not using Dolphin and which I do not own or control.  As a webmaster, I understand that this issue is the browser and not the websites, but I also understand that 99% of Americans use Internet Explorer only and Microsoft is pushing IE9 in Windows Update.  Add to this that 99% of people who use the internet are NOT webmasters and have no idea the issue is with their browser upgrade and not with the website software, they are going to blame the website owner and discontinue use of the sites which were previously working fine for them. 

I must consider this a major issue and I am faced with the choice of having to select new software to operate my website and thus having to migrate thousands of users and posts to the new software, or attempting to get my thousands of users to drop IE9 in favor of some other browser.  That is unless there is a patch to fix this issue.  Blaming MS for the issue is all well and good but it does not resolve the problem for people whose websites are based in countries where Windows is the primary operating system and Microsoft controls the user experience.

As a side note there is also an IE9 issue in the admin section, in Builders> Pages Blocks where you can not drag block order in pages, nor can you add or remove blocks from pages.

Please if someone has a fix for this issue, please, post it, I have been searching the forums here for several days and have found nothing to fix this issue which suddenly appeared this week even though I have been using IE9 for almost two months.  I upgraded from 7.0.3 through 4, 5, and then to 6, hoping to fix this issue and the problem still occurs.

I have cleaned the cache on my site, disabled db cache, anything I could think of to try to get past the error.  Nothing seems to help.  I really like dolphin and want to keep using it, but if my users can't post from their default browser then I will have no choice to but to migrate them to some other CMS.

:(

I just tested compatibility view in IE9 and the posts work.  I am going to sticky a post in my forums telling users that is the fix, but a fix for dolphin to overcome this issue would be greatly appreciated.

I have EXACTLY the same issue. Looking forward to a solution. I just bought some modules to get more traffic on the forum but it's useless if IE9 users cannot participate.

Solution:

Use Mozilla.

"99% use IE" is far from accurate. I say screw IE users, and let them suffer the problems their over conforming minds choose. Free your mind! Use open source, and encourage others to do so also.

Signed;

AN asshole that Obviously dislikes Microsoft

I also think everyone should use Mozilla but having said that, I tested my own 7.06 site with ie9 and didn;t experience any of the troubles you seem to be having, It's working just fine for me.

Suddenly I feel some guilt for my malicious post. Only some though.

I keep hearing of numerous issues with ie9 from other scripts and such. My guess is, that small issues will be popping up and being solved rather often for the next several months, with many different things. Not just D7.

 Did you ever find a solution for this? I'm still running 7.0.3 and would rather not take the upgrade path for now. 

Thanks in advance

no i never found a solution, and i dont think anyone cares, i am seriously considering dumping this software for something that i know works, i really just need a forums and files system with image and video support, i dont need the dating crap that is built into this, i have a tech community not a singles bar, it is nice all around software but the lack of compatibility for microsoft users is a real pain. and auto linking of image attachments in forums would be nice too, instead of having to post them in the photo albums and then post a link, too many tech newbies lack the skills to complete posting an image in a post with that level of complexity, aside from those significant problems i would love this system, but i am sure i can find something that can work for me

Please can you describe in details how to reproduce the problem ? I have no problems posting in Dolphin 7.0.8 forum using IE9.