[Building Sakai] IE 8

[Sean Keesler]

Here is a article about that:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/beyonddoctype

I guess the release of IE7 broke lots of sites because designers had
placed DOCTYPEs on their pages and then didn't follow the spec for
that type in their design.

--Sean


On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Steve Swinsburg
<s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>
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> Steve
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> Lancaster University
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> 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+Support
>> |
>> | 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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