[ckan-dev] Recline & IE7

Wed Jun 20 11:56:38 UTC 2012

On 20 June 2012 12:44, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> On 20 June 2012 12:40, David Read <david.read at hackneyworkshop.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> If that's the case we should. My point was I don't know what parts do
> and don't work -- we don't tend to test on IE. Feedback like yours
> (and patches) are warmly welcomed -- I was just saying that it may be
> tough to deliver this given IE's many limitations. That said I'm
> pretty sure the new default grid implementation using SlickGrid does
> work in IE7.

Yes that seems to be the case.
https://github.com/mleibman/SlickGrid/wiki mentions IE6 is
specifically not supported, which suggests it is not the cause of the
Recline problems in IE7.

David

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