[ckan-dev] Recline & IE7

[Adrià Mercader]

+1 to the notice on IE7
Just to give some context, here are the % of visitors on
thedatahub.org and publicdata.eu

TDH: IE7 1.63%, IE6 0.3%
PDEU: IE7 3.6%, IE6 0.7%

David, It'd we great to get hold of these numbers for data.gov.uk,
with presumably a wider governmental audience

On 20 June 2012 12:56, David Read <david.read at hackneyworkshop.com> wrote:
> 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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