[Portfolio] IE8 and 2.6 Portofolios tool

[Beth Kirschner]

Hi Christian,

    We discussed this problem on today's OSP conference call and were  
able to reproduce some of the behavior mentioned below (e.g. problems  
with show/hide public url on the share screen and problems with the  
'Select by' link). It doesn't look like IE8 was a tested platform for  
the Sakai 2.6 release and some thought there were problems with other  
tools as well with the IE8 browser.

    There were a couple of suggested workarounds:
    (1) There is (allegedly) an IE8 browser setting to put it into IE7  
compatibility mode for certain sites/pages.
    (2) The IE7 compatibility mode setting may also be set in the  
Sakai source code as a patch (http://www.nabble.com/-Building-Sakai--IE8-compatibility-td23027271.html 
).

- Beth

On Jul 28, 2009, at 5:12 PM, Noah Botimer wrote:

> Thanks, Christian. I was not particularly aware of these two items.  
> We are planning some local pre-Fall QA in the next couple of weeks  
> and I actually asked about IE8 in a meeting today. This helps focus  
> by pointing at a couple of specific issues.
>
> I don't know your familiarity with JIRA, but it would be great if  
> you could get screenshots of these problems and create tickets  
> against the Portfolios tool. You can leave the assignee as OSP JIRA  
> Team and a handful of us will be notified. The Affects version  
> should be 2.6.0 and the Fix version should be 2.6.1 and 2.7  
> [Tentative].
>
> Thanks,
> -Noah
>
> On Jul 28, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Christian Aziz wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We've come across 2 issues in the 2.6 Portfolios tool  
>> (osp.presentation) via Internet Explorer 8.
>>
>> In the 'Share with Others' tab, the 'Select by' link does not drop  
>> down the six selection choices (browsing for people, entering a  
>> user id, etc) that normally appear in Firefox and Safari. In fact,  
>> clicking it yields no result at all.  In addition, the box below it  
>> which displays 'users who are not currently selected' should be a  
>> manageable, six-person-long list but in IE the list (over 2000  
>> users) is dumped right onto the page. To find and select people to  
>> share with, the user needs to scroll the entire page- not a box.  
>> Has anyone had similar experiences?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Christian V. Aziz - Instructional Designer
>> Office of Instructional and Research Technology
>> Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
>>
>> 101K Administrative Services Building Annex 1
>> 56 Bevier Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854
>> Tel: 732-445-8732 | Fax: 732-445-5539
>>
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