So you just settled in to your new job and you got a support ticket that says "the textbox is jumpy". Feeling sure of yourself, you go straight to the control in question and immediately start trying to reproduce the error. Right away you notice the control is not a "textbox", but a "textarea" and you store that little nugget for later. You open Chrome and start hammering away on the textarea trying to make it "jump" to no avail. Being someone who is particularly thorough, you call the tester and ask what they were doing when they saw the bug. After a bit of back and forth the tester finally admits he was testing in IE. Ah, maybe that's the problem.
So you open IE on your machine (which was built after Castro retired (pay attention, that's important)) and try to reproduce the bug there. Still with no way to reproduce the issue, you pay the tester a visit. You immediately recognize that one of your worst fears has come true. The tester is using an old version of Internet Explorer. Specifically, he's using IE8.
OK, fast forward a few hours. You've pulled out 30% of your hair, involved two other developers, one business analyst, and a partridge in a pear tree. The partridge isn't particularly helpful, but the pears are delicious. You still can't find anything. You finally consult the Mighty Internet and as you type "IE8 textarea" Google (because you switched back to Chrome, because of course you did) helpfully auto populates the most commonly searched terms with... "scroll bug".
The first result of that search takes you here, where the very helpful author explains that you're not crazy and neither is your tester. Microsoft just (surprise) released something with a really-annoying-but-not-commonly-encountered-bug in it. The fix is simple and everyone is happy.
Except your hair follicles. They're super pissed at you.
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