Have you seen this - http://dean.edwards.name/ie7/ it's a simple to embed set
of js and css to make ie6 behave properly. I've used it on a number of sites,
and it helps makes ie6 like a real browser and significantly reduces the number
of hacks required. Best of all, it does it using about 5 lines in a conditional
comment, so it doesn't show up the hacks under FF and other "proper" browsers.
Compare www.pixelseventy2.net/pixel without this fix, to
www.pixelseventy2.net/pixel/About.page with the fix. Both pages are using
exactly the same css (there is a second css included on the latter page, this
is to do syntax colouring only and doesn't affect layout).
BTW, thanks for this post, it reminded me that I needed to add this fix to my
home page :p
Also, is there support for accesskeys in any of the svn versions? If not, I
have a patch for them that I can submit. I much prefer pressing alt-s to send
an email than having to use the mouse :)
Chris
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:56:50 +0200, Thomas Bruederli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, that's the problem between standards and real world. All those
> things your Firefox is complaining about, are hacks that make RoundCube
> appear as it should in most browsers.
>
> Martin Marques wrote:
>> Some things I found after upgrading to 346:
>
> This is not related to rev 346. Those hacks have been there from the
> beginning.
>>
>> Much to many CSS errors in my javascript console. Some related to IE
> hacks (I'm working with Firefox 1.5.0.6). Basically in mail.css and also
> in common.css. I'll lay down only some, because there are too much:
>>
>> Unknown property 'behaviour' in line... (this is in common.css)
>>
>> img
>> {
>> behavior: url('skins/default/pngbehavior.htc');
>> }
>
> This makes PNG images with alpha channel to be displayed correctly in
> IE. As you might know, IE does not actually display alpha channels.
>>
>> In mail.css there are errors like this (sorry it's in spanish):
>>
>> Error: Error al leer el valor para la propiedad 'width'. Declaración
> rechazada.
>> Archivo de origen: https://bugs.unl.edu.ar/mail/skins/default/mail.css
>> Línea: 119
>
> This is also a IE hack because it cannot display block containers having
> top,right,bottom,left defined. But it can understand javascript code
> within CSS properties (!).
>>
>> And:
>>
>> /*\*/
>> html>body*#quicksearchbar { background-image: none; }
>> html>body*#quicksearchbar a { top: 5px; }
>> html>body*#quicksearchbar #quicksearchbox { width: 180px; top:0px;
> right: 1px; left: auto; }
>> /**/
>>
>> What does this do? I couldn't find much info on it.
>
> This is an ugly hack for Safari to not apply some styles to the search
> box.
>>
>> And there are lots of others.
>>
>> Want me to put a ticket in the trac system on this?
>>
>
> No, please don't, because these are not actually bugs but hacks.
> I like standards too and a really care about them but on the other side,
> I don't want to see dozens of error tickets because some browsers are
> not able to display the UI right. The RoundCube UI is based on CSS 2 and
> unfortunately not all browsers are ready to interpret all rules as
> they're supposed to do. Until this happens (if ever) we have to live
> with such hacks. Once IE7 has replaced all older versions, we can remove
> many of them but I'm sure new hacks will be necessary.
>
> Here you can find a list of known css hacks:
> http://centricle.com/ref/css/filters/
>
> What we could do, to reduce the number of errors shown in your Firefox
> console, is to separate all IE hacks to a file and include it with a
> conditional comment.
>
> ~Thomas
