We accept patches (or Pull Requests) for IE issues, but do not actively try to fix them. Just because I have a website I only have to wait 5minutes to see screenshots of per-page, or needing to load a vm (or many?) to test a browser incompatibility, doesn't mean that it is not expensive task.
For my part, honestly, I don't care. It isn't worth my time. If it is worth yours, please send patches. If you look at our markup you see bunch of IE conditions to workaround various issues: <!--[if lte IE 7]> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.php.net/styles/workarounds.ie7.css"; media="screen" /> <![endif]--> <!--[if lte IE 8]> <script type="text/javascript"> window.brokenIE = true; </script> <![endif]--> <!--[if lte IE 9]> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://www.php.net/styles/workarounds.ie9.css"; media="screen" /> <![endif]--> <!--[if IE]> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.php.net/js/ext/html5.js";></script> <![endif]--> If it was totally up to me I would honestly remove it all as this sort of contamination is aweful, and it clearly isn't maintained so the situation only becomes worse and worse. At this point though, we do accept patches if you are interested in fixing the IE situation: https://github.com/php/web-php Fairly certain the current IE support has all come from random people doing drive-by testing on IE anyway. -Hannes On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Colleen Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Levi – can you tell me of the other workarounds you have in place for IE? > IE’s made a lot of changes and maybe some of the workarounds aren’t > necessary any longer (and maybe they are). > > > > If you’re willing to send a list, I’d be happy to look at them and confer > with the IE team to see if some of the pain points can be removed. > > > > Thanks, > > Colleen > > > > From: Levi Morrison [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, May 2, 2014 6:32 AM > To: Pierre Joye > Cc: Hannes Magnusson; Ted Kim (Axelerate LLC); [email protected]; > Ecosystem Engineering IE > Subject: Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] IE Compatibility and php.net | Microsoft ref# > 612807 > > > > That works for basic screenshots which is good enough. Not exactly sure what > I should be looking for in regard to @-ms-viewport because it doesn't seem > to take screenshots using IE on mobile devices; I believe that's really > where the viewport settings comes into play? > > > > On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Pierre Joye <[email protected]> wrote: > > hi, > > > On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Levi Morrison <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Hannes Magnusson >> <[email protected] >>> wrote: >> >>> Why the prefix? >>> We have this in our markup already. Why do you need it specifically in >>> the >>> CSS? >>> >>> I guess we can add it into our ie workarounds, but these seem to quickly >>> becoming out of control and not worth it imo. Not to mention it to >>> expensive to actually see if it works. >>> >>> -Hannes >>> >>> >> Based on the git logs, Hannes and I are the contributors to the PHP.net >> website in recent years; I don't know about Hannes but I don't even have a >> Windows machine to test this on. Would you be willing to set up something >> we could use to test our website for IE compatibility? Sending us >> hardware, >> setting up some kind of snapshot VM or anything along those lines? At the >> moment it's just really hard for me because I don't have Windows. > > http://modern.ie/en-us > > Cheers, > -- > Pierre > > @pierrejoye | http://www.libgd.org > > -- PHP Webmaster List Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
