[Portfolio] IE8 and 2.6 Portofolios tool

[Sean Keesler]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/features/easier.aspx
See the section called compatibility view.

Sean Keesler
130 Academy Street
Manlius, New York 13104 USA
315-663-7756
sean.keesler at threecanoes.com


On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Beth Kirschner <bkirschn at umich.edu> wrote:

> 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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