[Building Sakai] IE 8

[DAVID ROLDAN MARTINEZ]

I agree

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De: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] En nombre de Steve Swinsburg
Enviado el: viernes, 20 de marzo de 2009 14:00
Para: Adam Marshall
CC: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
Asunto: Re: [Building Sakai] IE 8

I've never understood the logic behind using an attribute that forces a new browser (IE8) to render in the old mode (IE7).

Isn't the DOCTYPE meant to tell the browser what mode to render the page in? It's kind of getting old having to employ workarounds for Internet Explorer.

Until Sakai can be rendered in IE8 properly, without this silly workaround, my vote would be to NOT have it on the supported browsers list.


Steve

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Steve Swinsburg
Portal Systems Developer
Centre for e-Science
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YT

email: s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk
phone: +44 (0) 1524 594870







On 20 Mar 2009, at 10:04, Adam Marshall wrote:

> We've set the ie 7 compatibility header:
>
> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7">
>
> This entirely fixes any IE 8 issues (or rather, we havent noticed 
> anything that doesnt work).
>
> Adam
>
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev- 
> | bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Knoop, Peter
> | Sent: 19 March 2009 19:46
> | To: Silverio, Gonzalo; Ron Peterson; 
> | sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> | Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] IE 8
> |
> | > -----Original Message-----
> | > From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-dev- 
> | > bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Silverio, Gonzalo
> | > Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 3:18 PM
> | > To: Ron Peterson; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> | > Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] IE 8
> | >
> | > I have been correcting  issues as they are reported in the
> portal and
> | > old core tools, for trunk. Tool owners using version specific 
> | > conditional comments that did not take new versions into account
> (like
> | > Resources, to my shame) might want to take a look at their use.
> | >
> | > On a side note, would the supported browsers list merit revision?
> |
> | http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/QA/Browser+Sup
> | port
> |
> | IE8 has not been part of the suite of browsers used regularly by
> the QA
> | team for Sakai 2.6, which is currently in the final stages of
> testing.
> | I'll leave it to Pete as to when he is planning to add IE8 to the
> mix.  It
> | is certainly likely to be a major browser by later this year for
> Sakai 2.5
> | and 2.6 deployments, if not sooner.  There will likely be a need
> to deal
> | with Windows 7 (with its version of IE8 and Firefox) as well in
> the near
> | future.
> |
> | -peter
> |
> |
> | > On 3/19/09 3:10 PM, "Ron Peterson" <rpeterso at mtholyoke.edu> wrote:
> | > IE 8 is out of beta today.
> | >
> | > Has anyone used it against Sakai?  I'm mostly interested in
> 2.5.x, but
> | > of course it's widespread use will be relevant to all of the
> releases.
> | >
> | > --
> | > Ron Peterson
> | > Network & Systems Manager
> | > Mount Holyoke College
> | > http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso
> | > facebook: http://tinyurl.com/d63r5c
> | > -
> | > I wish my computer would do what I want it to do - not what I
> tell it
> | > to do.
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