[Building Sakai] Sakai 2.9.1 and IE8

[David Wafula]

I just also noticed this.

This

sakai.X-UA-Compatible=IE=8

Seems to fix it in IE 8.

Regards


On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Keli Sato Amann <kamann at stanford.edu>wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
> I'm wading into waters that are above my head, but I'll give it a try
> because I want to ask a question
>
> It's not important, but I think the actual original default in
> sakai.properties as of 2.9 is
> sakai.X-UA-Compatible=IE=EmulateIE9 (reading old threads, it was
> emulateie8 because of ckeditor, which is now gone)
>
> This was meant to protect users against IE10, which 2.9 will have issues
> with.
>
> Stephen, you've changed that property to be
> sakai.X-UA-Compatible=IE=8
>
> I think you are saying this means your sakai instance will always look
> like IE8 when viewed in IE8, 9 or 10, even if the campus admins have
> browsers set to downgrade sakai to look like IE7 within IE8?
>
> We are somewhat interested in a global fix like this, because we have only
> made this change for student computing clusters, not the IE's that might be
> installed for staff members by various IT departments across the campus
> that we are not aware of. Sam indicated that head changes wouldn't have an
> effect so we didn't pursue.
>
> Unfortunately, your setting also means that ie9 users can't appreciate
> improvement between ie8 and 9 (
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/ff468705.aspx#_New_Features), so would
> "sakai.X-UA-Compatible=IE=8,9" also work?
>
> Or whatever that needs to be typed as to show this: <meta
> http-equiv=“X-UA-Compatible” content=“IE=8; IE=9” />
>
> On a related note, I'm not sure I know what is the difference is between
> IE=8 and IE=EmulateIE8. I think IE=8 forces all browsers >9 to display it
> as IE8, whereas EmulateIE8 tells browser to display as ie8 or it's
> displayed as IE5 (Quirks) mode if there were no doctype. But there is a doc
> type so I think the point is moot.
>
> -Keli
> P.s. when I look at source for our local nightly as well as on
> nightly2.sakaiproject.org:8087, I don't see <meta
> http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE9"> in the head, so I'm
> confused as to how sakai.properties has an effect.)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Marquard" <stephen.marquard at uct.ac.za>
> To: "Sam Ottenhoff" <ottenhoff at longsight.com>
> Cc: "Keli Sato Amann" <kamann at stanford.edu>, "ciellie" <
> ciellie.jansenvanvuuren at nwu.ac.za>, sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 10:32:43 AM
> Subject: RE: [Building Sakai] Sakai 2.9.1 and IE8
>
>
> We investigated precisely this issue for our on-campus IE8 browsers for
> our 2.9.x rollout, having seen the same problem, and this change solved it.
>
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj676915(v=vs.85).aspx
>
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc288325(v=vs.85).aspx
>
>
> We changed this from the previous (default?) value of
> sakai.X-UA-Compatible="IE=EmulateIE8".
>
>
> Obviously caveat emptor (or the open source equivalent).
>
>
> Regards
> Stephen
>
>
>
>
> From: Sam Ottenhoff [ottenhoff at longsight.com]
> Sent: 13 June 2013 07:21 PM
> To: Stephen Marquard
> Cc: Keli Sato Amann; ciellie; sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Sakai 2.9.1 and IE8
>
>
>
>
> Setting a header won't solve the issue Keli reported. A default Microsoft
> group policy will force "intranet" apps to IE7 mode *despite* the HTTP
> header.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Stephen Marquard <
> stephen.marquard at uct.ac.za > wrote:
>
>
> We have:
>
> sakai.X-UA-Compatible=IE=8
>
> in our sakai.properties to deal with this issue.
>
> Regards
> Stephen
>
> ________________________________________
> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [
> sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org ] on behalf of Keli Sato Amann
> [ kamann at stanford.edu ]
> Sent: 13 June 2013 06:59 PM
> To: ciellie
> Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
>
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Sakai 2.9.1 and IE8
>
> We discovered 3 weeks ago that all of our residential and library computer
> clusters were rendering all sites matching https://*. stanford.edu in
> compatibility mode and thus would make our 2.9 upgrade (live this Monday!)
> look horrible. Our campus admins are going to roll out a fix tonight so ie8
> looks like ie8. You can check this by going to Tools>Developer tools and
> see if the document mode is ie7.
>
> Best,
> Keli
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ciellie" < ciellie.jansenvanvuuren at nwu.ac.za >
> To: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 6:36:54 AM
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Sakai 2.9.1 and IE8
>
> Thank you very much. The problem was fixed when I turned of the
> compatibility mode in IE8
>
> Thanx again
>
>
>
>
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