[ckan-dev] Recline & IE7

Wed Jun 20 11:40:44 UTC 2012

Rufus,

Thanks for this. How about displaying a message saying 'this does not
work in IE7', rather than printing text all over the rest of the web
page? It would be worth noting this limitation in the docs too.

As you know, a significant number of government and industry users are
on this browser.

David

On 20 June 2012 12:30, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> On 20 June 2012 12:05, David Read <david.read at hackneyworkshop.com> wrote:
>> Hi CKAN devs,
>>
>> There seem various problems with CKAN 1.7.1 beta when viewed in
>> Internet Explorer 7 - see screenshot http://imgur.com/FKkNg
>>
>> In particular, Recline has IE7 bugs and simply doesn't load, leaving
>> the 'loading' symbol continously swirling. I made a number of fixes on
>> our copy of recline.js which you may want to pull.
>> https://github.com/okfn/ckanext-dgu/commit/97a816a99edd70ff6c300f54765907a716c5384c
>
> This is great David! However most of these are to Recline itself so
> can you apply the patches upstream to Recline [1] - CKAN merges from
> upstream Recline.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/okfn/recline
>
>> But there still seems major issues displaying the grid and scrolling
>> simply doesn't work - see screenshot http://i.imgur.com/Zfcb7 . Is
>> this something you're able to look at?
>
> Supporting IE7 for rich JS applications is a huge PITA (and often
> impossible). The basic answer may be: "get a decent browser" - while
> this is nice to have functionality it is not absolutely essential and
> IE7 is now 6y old ...
>
> Rufus
>
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