Trouble with the hosted website from a page viewer web part. (Sahrepoint 2010)

Question

Hi everyone,
I am facing trouble with sharepoint and I would like some help.
I use Sharepoint 2010 and I have included a page viewer page part in one the pages I 've created that hosts another website. Although most of the functionality of the hosted website is there, some functions of it don't work. These functions are apply buttons
or downloading documents buttons. My guess is that the web part has to update dynamically and it should be independent from the Sharepoint page.
Is there a way to do this? It is important that the website is hosted in the since at the same page I have s guide on how to use the hosted website.
If this can't be done using a page viewer webpart I am open to other suggestions as well.
Thanks in advance!
Sakis

Answer 1

Is it possible that the hosted website page is using HTML5 of other functionality that isn't supported by the IE-8 restriction in the SharePoint master page? We've run into that before, where the page wouldn't work in the page viewer. I also had problems
where Chrome/Firefox wouldn't display a pager viewer when it crossed hosts/changed protocol.
What I had to do was add some javascript/Jquery to pop up another window to view the page if I wasn't on IE, getting out of the restriction of the SharePoint master page. If I was in IE the page viewer webpart worked.  Not ideal, but maybe you could
adapt - they could see your instructions on the page but work with the host page on another.
<script type="text/javascript" src="/Javascript/JQuery/JQueryMin-1.8.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
var isIE = /*@cc_on!@*/false || document.documentMode;
if(!isIE) {
window.open('http://fmgblog/measure/email/dashboard.php');
}); // end of document ready
</script>
Robin