I am writing this in hopes that it will keep someone from spending hours on this problem. Simply put, Internet Explorer does NOT respect jQuery's slideDown effect.
I was working on a comment reply form for this website. The form is supposed to slide down below the comment being replied to. Works great in Firefox! Internet Explorer is another issue. Using the jQuery slideDown effect in IE, a user clicks on comment reply link, the form slides down nicely, then all the form fields vanish. Non-form tags like a p tag stays put.
IE slideDown() Bug Solution:
I used the show('slow') effect instead. Yep, that is it.
The tinyMCE editor layer is a whole 'nother story. Look for a post about this later.
Apparently I wasn't the only one who had this problem, but it was difficult finding solutions online for this simple fix... so I hope this will save somebody some time.
Favio's Post on jQuery.slideDown IE Bug on blog.Favirk.com
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As much as Mac lovers love their operating systems and Firefox users love their browser, you can't escape the fact that many people use Internet Explorer, and if you expect to have a large and diverse user population you have to develop and test on both platforms.