[Building Sakai] Fwd: IE 9 has been released

Tue Mar 15 13:01:36 PDT 2011

Hi guys,

I have confirmed that this bug is present in our Sakai instance for users of
IE9 at Delaware (2.6.3). I made the the following screenshots for anyone to
use.

Freezed up: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathplourde/5529392273/

Compatibility mode enabled:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathplourde/5529980226/

Mathieu
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Mathieu Plourde, MBA
Project Leader, LMS/Instructional Designer
IT-Client Support & Services
mathieu at udel.edu
Office: 302-831-4060

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On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Matthew Jones <jonespm at umich.edu> wrote:

> Well, I was briefly testing it out with the final release of IE9.
>
> The "good news" is that the FCKEditor does come up, so at least the text
> areas are usable. The bad news is that almost everything that pops up a
> window freezes the browser. So this is not a good thing. Compatibility mode
> fixes this.
>
> I might continue to briefly look at it but our best fix will be to patch in
> that meta tag. I'll add it in so it can be set via property (which version
> to emulate) or disabled if desired. By default we'd probably have it
> configured to emulate IE8.
>
> 1 minute screen cast demoing the FCK bug in the current version of IE9.
>
> http://www.screencast.com/users/jonespm/folders/Jing/media/030b170e-87f1-4b1f-a337-fb00cfd08bab
>
> -Matthew
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Berg, Alan <A.M.Berg at uva.nl> wrote:
>
>>  I plan QA to test IE 9 in the coming days.  I have already suggested to
>> Rob and Corey to focuss the next test fests in this direction.
>>
>>  Matthews compatability patch seems the way to go in the short term. If
>> that gets in before the next RC we may have just about enough run up time to
>> verify.
>>
>>  Alan
>>
>> Alan Berg
>> QA Director - The Sakai Foundation
>>
>> Senior Developer / Quality Assurance
>> Group Education and Research Services
>> Central Computer Services
>> University of Amsterdam
>>    ------------------------------
>> *From:* sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [
>> sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] on behalf of Matthew Jones [
>> jonespm at umich.edu]
>> *Sent:* 15 March 2011 16:01
>> *To:* markjnorton at earthlink.net
>> *Cc:* sakai-dev
>> *Subject:* Re: [Building Sakai] Fwd: IE 9 has been released
>>
>>  Yea, I saw the announcement last night. The IE9 release candidate
>> completely broke FCKEditor and they weren't expected to fix it. This would
>> make anything earlier than 2.8 (since 2.8 had a CKEditor option) mostly
>> unusable by default. I was going to find a Windows 7 machine today (since it
>> won't install in XP) and see if there are still these big problems. If they
>> weren't fixed in the final release is we'd probably need to patch in a IE8
>> compatibility patch for all of the releases that are using this editor.
>>
>> https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-20058
>>
>>  -Matthew
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Mark Norton <markjnorton at earthlink.net>wrote:
>>
>>> This seems to be worth cross-posting.  Hopefully it doesn't complicated
>>> the QA work on Sakai 2.8.0.
>>>
>>> - Mark
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------  Subject: IE 9 has been released  Date:
>>> Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:04:03 -0400  From: Justin Obara
>>> <obara.justin at gmail.com> <obara.justin at gmail.com>  To: fluid-work Work
>>> <fluid-work at fluidproject.org> <fluid-work at fluidproject.org>
>>>
>>> Internet Explorer 9 was just officially released. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/internetexplorer/
>>>
>>> This means that as of Infusion 1.4 we will be tracking it as an a-grade browser in Windows 7. I've upgraded our browser support chart to reflect this. http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Browser+Support+Chart
>>>
>>> Please make sure that you are periodically testing with IE 9. Also please ensure that any pre-release versions of IE 9 are upgraded to the latest stable release.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Justin
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