[css-d] How to Overcome Problems Associated with the IE8 Devolution
I am sending this out to web professionals so they may be able to avoid wasting several hours, if not days, on certain IE issues related to their upgraded versions of IE. I am using a library called WZ_Tooltip ( http://www.walterzorn.com/tooltip/tooltip_e.htm) to handle the need for some custom tooltips on an application I write. This application allows you to customize your tooltips, using embedded HTML, etc. Just recently, one of my co-workers was testing out our application with Winblows 7 and IE8, when she realized that these tooltips are not appearing. I have a previous version of IE8 that I test with XP (8.0.6001.18702) and it works fine. I cannot recall for sure what her version is; but I recall that it is later. Anyhow, this was all very troubling, because many of our clients are likely to be installing 7 on their future machines. Well, there is a workaround that makes it so you don't have to worry about all of the things that micro$oft breaks (until they break this, i suppose). Just put the following META tag in your head/head meta http-equiv=X-UA-Compatible content=IE=EmulateIE7 / It works great! I'm glad some engineers at Micro$oft had a bit of foresight into how their products tend to DEvolve as time progresses. ~chris __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
[css-d] site wider in mozilla browser?
Hi, I just seemed to notice that my site http://www.designhosting.biz/index.html looks wider in mozilla than safari or opera. I cannot test IE so don't about that one. Ideas why this is happening? Thanks! Best Regards, Melinda Odom __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] site wider in mozilla browser?
Melinda Odom wrote: Hi, I just seemed to notice that my site http://www.designhosting.biz/index.html looks wider in mozilla than safari or opera. I cannot test IE so don't about that one. Ideas why this is happening? Thanks! Best Regards, Melinda Odom Dunno? Appears to be the same width in Opera, Safari, SeaMonkey, Chrome, IE 6/7/8, PC FF/2.0.0.20, and Mac FF/3.5.8 Best, ~d -- desktop http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ mobile http://chelseacreekstudio.mobi/ __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] site wider in mozilla browser?
David Laakso wrote: Melinda Odom wrote: Hi, I just seemed to notice that my site http://www.designhosting.biz/index.html looks wider in mozilla than safari or opera. I cannot test IE so don't about that one. Ideas why this is happening? Thanks! Best Regards, Melinda Odom Dunno? Appears to be the same width in Opera, Safari, SeaMonkey, Chrome, IE 6/7/8, PC FF/2.0.0.20, and Mac FF/3.5.8 Best, ~d On the other hand, if the question is why the block of teeny tiny type is serif rather than sans in FF I am not sure about that, either-- unless it is a Byte order mark [1] on the CSS file that is causing the problem. View the CSS file in the Web Developer Tool Bar. -- desktop http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ mobile http://chelseacreekstudio.mobi/ __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
Re: [css-d] How to Overcome Problems Associated with the IE8 Devolution
On 21 February 2010 19:09, Chris Case kaho...@gmail.com wrote: It works great! I'm glad some engineers at Micro$oft had a bit of foresight into how their products tend to DEvolve as time progresses. Short of spending some time building a test suite for it, my best guess is that the library depends on a bug in Internet Explorer which is fixed in version 8. The rules for triggering Standards or IE7 Emulation mode are quite complex (and include such things as the IP address being on a LAN rather then that Internet!), so it is possible that you were testing in Emulation mode to being with. The emulation mode is a pragmatic, but horribly unintuitive, approach to let authors keep their code working in IE until they make it better conform to web standards — labeling this devolution is unfair. -- David Dorward http://dorward.me.ukhttp://blog.dorward.me.uk __ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
