#1635 Community website does not work on Internet Explorer.
Closed: Fixed None Opened 14 years ago by sijis.

== phenomenon ==
The Community website (1) does not work in IE versions 6, 7 or 8. Some pages are able to load but are not 100% usable.
It does work on Firefox in Windows.

(1) = https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/

== reason ==
Community should be available to users using Internet Explorer as it is a major browser. Even though the website is primarily for packagers and Fedora users, it is still a way to promote the community for non-packagers and showcase open-source software.

== recommendation ==
Test and verify the site will work in Internet Explorer.


This might be a usability thing so I'll cc spot and mizmo too.

Just got Win7 to install into a virt instance. Was having problems before. I'll take a look at this.

So this might be pretty straight forward. IE8 comes with a decent debugger. The first bug I hit was simply an extraneous comma.

Got it somewhat working with ie8. Need to switch custom tags to using namespaces next. IE takes custom tags and closes them. For example:

<moksha_extpoint>
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.
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</moksha_extpoint>

becomes:

<moksha_extpoint />
.
.
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</moksha_extpoint />

by adding:

<html xmlns:moksha="<a href="https://fedorahosted.org/moksha"">https://fedorahosted.org/moksha">

<moksha:extpoint>
.
.
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</moksha:extpoint>

we can fix the issue and be more standards compliant.

Turns out namespaces are poorly supported in the libraries we use and the browsers handle them differently so I reverted to using div's with moksha_extpoint classes. Fixed url updating and some string handling issues along with a lot of extra commas that IE didn't like. Works in IE8 and IE8's IE7 rendering mode (so I assume it works for IE7). I haven't checked IE6 but I don't think we need to go that far back. It looks super ugly but I'll have Mo go over it when she has time.

Will be updated in the next staging update. I'll update the bug when that happens.

if you post the staging url, i can check against IE7.
I wouldn't worry about IE6 either.

Can you please try and reproduce this issue with the latest production instance: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community ? Thanks

Going ahead and closing this.

Feel free to reopen or file a new bug if you still see issues.

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