[ckan-dev] Recline & IE7

[David Read]

On 20 June 2012 13:13, Adrià Mercader <amercadero at gmail.com> wrote:
> +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%

data.gov.uk: IE7 17.3%, IE6 5.6%
(for the last month)

I saw this other analysis of government traffic that broadly agrees
and shows IE6 has thankfully got a half life of a year:
http://www.delib.net/dblog/good-news-on-ie6-government-usage-plummets-in-2012/

So we're not doing IE6 compatibility work going forward. But you can
see it is very important for us that we support IE7, and no doubt
other governments aren't much different. Since we are replacing much
of the theme, we are doing it to IE7 specs, but we need to ensure
compatibility when using JS libraries. We have Bootstrap, JQuery,
JSTree etc which all play (mostly) fine with IE7, so it would be great
if Recline could be patched up too.

David

>
> 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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