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Internet explorer 8 plugin?
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:05 am
by Thenewbie_
What happend to the internet explorer 8 plugin that optimize your site for ie8?
I cant find it, is it deleted?
Re: Internet explorer 8 plugin?
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:32 pm
by infograf768
Just add manually as first line after the <head> tag in your template index.php
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
Re: Internet explorer 8 plugin?
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:19 am
by vissuleth
Be carefull doing this it switches your browser to comapability view and can cause your site to display incorrectly. I wish somthing would be done about these issues, Its a pain relying on people having to use fire fox to display a joomla site correctly.
Re: Internet explorer 8 plugin?
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:28 am
by infograf768
The only good solution is to create specific css for ie8 with a conditional statement.
Re: Internet explorer 8 plugin?
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:44 am
by vissuleth
Yeh that's easier said than done if you know what you are talkng about. I have just spent alot of money building my site with joomla and sobi only to find out when im 98% complete that it does not work correctly in IE8 this really made me mad. Now windows 7 is released it default with IE8 and 80% of users use IE8 ive just thrown my money down the toilet.
Re: Internet explorer 8 plugin?
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 9:48 pm
by jeffchannell
infograf768: correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought IE8 did away with conditionals and expressions?
Re: Internet explorer 8 plugin?
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 1:43 am
by vissuleth
jeffchannell wrote:infograf768: correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought IE8 did away with conditionals and expressions?
That means about as much to me as php code does
All I know is that when someone goes to edit an advertisement they have paid for on my site that DONT work correctly it does not show the whole edit page.
Is it s sobi problem they say no
Is it a Joomla problem they say no
Is it an IE problem every 1 here says yes
It really annoys me when microsoft wants to change something the whole world has to follow, yes im pissed and why shouldent I be........
Re: Internet explorer 8 plugin?
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:38 am
by Abu Ilias
hello to all,
i use this plugin on my two sites without any problem
http://www.joomtorial.com/downloads/plu ... patibility
unzip the package because there are plugins for both joomla versions.
regards
Abu Ilias
Re: Internet explorer 8 plugin?
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 6:57 am
by infograf768
This plugin just adds the code I pasted above when loading the template.
jeffchannell wrote:infograf768: correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought IE8 did away with conditionals and expressions?
The conditional may be necessary in your template to load the correct CSS.
For example a specific IE7 css if the CSS are IE8 aware, or the reverse.
We have changed such a conditional in ja_purity in the next version of Joomla, 1.5.15, because it was breaking display in IE8
Was
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<!--[if gte IE 7.0]>
<style type="text/css">
.clearfix {display: inline-block;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
changed to
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<!--[if IE 7.0]>
<style type="text/css">
.clearfix {display: inline-block;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
Re: Internet explorer 8 plugin?
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 1:31 pm
by bfahnoe
This wa a really good advice. When I changed this in my site, suddenly IE8 displayed ok.
Thanks a lot.
You should put it on your webpage, as I think a lot of people have troubles wit this
Re: Internet explorer 8 plugin?
Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2010 11:42 pm
by em6a
It's sad, but this actually doesn't help my website work right. When an IE8 a user clicks "compatibility view" it works just fine, but not if I ad any of these extra scripts or plugins. This is really killing my traffic.