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Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar

15 Aug 2013 15 Aug '13

12:13 p.m.

I am wondering about the support for IE 8 in XWiki5.x There are a few layout bugs in XWiki5 (actually been there in XWiki4 as much as I can remember) that do not directly hamper functionality but simply look ugly, like: - scrollbars around the outer frame of the Editor - tabs for comments, etc at the bottom of the page are stacked on top of each other instead of displayed left to right I am thinking of patching things for my instance so they look better in IE8, and I am wondering if IE 8 is still officially supported, and if yes, if patches for such layout glitches are of any interest. Cheers, Clemens

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Sorin Burjan

16 Aug 16 Aug

1:37 p.m.

Hello Clemens, Make sure you are not using IE Compatibility mode. As far as I know, the bottom tabs like comments, attachments look ugly because Compatibility Mode is enabled. IE8 is supported by XWiki 4 and 5, so contributions are more than welcomed. Before reporting an issue or making a pull request, please check http://jira.xwiki.org if they have not been already reported. Best regards, Sorin B. On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar < c.robbenhaar(a)espresto.com> wrote:

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Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar

5:03 p.m.

Hello Sorin,

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Hello Clemens, Make sure you are not using IE Compatibility mode. As far as I know, the bottom tabs like comments, attachments look ugly because Compatibility Mode is enabled.

Ahem, cough, cough, that was actually the cause of my problems :-/

...

IE8 is supported by XWiki 4 and 5, so contributions are more than welcomed. Before reporting an issue or making a pull request, please check http://jira.xwiki.org if they have not been already reported.

In case I really start working on something I will better check the issue tracker before ... however for now everything looks ok from here. Thanks, Clemens

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Best regards, Sorin B. On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar < c.robbenhaar(a)espresto.com> wrote: > > I am wondering about the support for IE 8 in XWiki5.x > > There are a few layout bugs in XWiki5 (actually been there in XWiki4 as > much as I can remember) > that do not directly hamper functionality but simply look ugly, like: > > - scrollbars around the outer frame of the Editor > - tabs for comments, etc at the bottom of the page > are stacked on top of each other instead of displayed left to right > > I am thinking of patching things for my instance so they look better in > IE8, > and I am wondering if IE 8 is still officially supported, and if yes, > if patches for such layout glitches are of any interest. > > Cheers, > Clemens >

Dan Rodriguez

5:46 p.m.

Clemens, Manually switching to the proper IE standards mode is a quick fix, but I don't think it will solve your problem completely. You may have to switch it out of Quirks mode again and again in the future. Pre IE10 versions will render pages in Quirks mode for many reasons (see http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/ie-mode.pdf). For instance, if there is an xml declaration before the doctype, it will goes straight to Quirks mode. XWiki does just that:  <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> I found a fix in a sample config file provided by HTML5 Boilerplate ( http://html5boilerplate.com/). This fix ensures all IE (<10) who navigate to your wiki, will see pages rendered with the proper IE Standards mode. If you are using Apache HTTP, you can drop this snippet in your Apache config file, create an .htaccess file, or create a .conf file with this snippet in the conf.d folder (preferable method): # ############################################################################## # # INTERNET EXPLORER # # ############################################################################## # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # | Better website experience | # ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ # Force IE to render pages in the highest available mode in the various # cases when it may not: http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/ie-mode.pdf. <IfModule mod_headers.c> Header set X-UA-Compatible "IE=edge" # `mod_headers` can't match based on the content-type, however, we only # want to send this header for HTML pages and not for the other resources <FilesMatch "\.(appcache|crx|css|eot|gif|htc|ico|jpe?g|js|m4a|m4v|manifest|mp4|oex|oga|ogg|ogv|otf|pdf|png|safariextz|svgz?|ttf|vcf|webapp|webm|webp|woff|xml|xpi)$"> Header unset X-UA-Compatible </FilesMatch> </IfModule> If you're using Nginx or something else, HTML5 Boilerplate provides config examples for other server types here: https://github.com/h5bp Best, Dan On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar < c.robbenhaar(a)espresto.com> wrote:

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Hello Sorin,

Hello Clemens, Make sure you are not using IE Compatibility mode. As far as I know, the bottom tabs like comments, attachments look ugly because Compatibility

Mode

is enabled.

Ahem, cough, cough, that was actually the cause of my problems :-/

IE8 is supported by XWiki 4 and 5, so contributions are more than

welcomed.

Before reporting an issue or making a pull request, please check http://jira.xwiki.org if they have not been already reported.

In case I really start working on something I will better check the issue tracker before ... however for now everything looks ok from here. Thanks, Clemens

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Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)

19 Aug 19 Aug

10:18 a.m.

Hi, I've fixed this in http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-8907 Sorin when you will test 5.2M2 would be great if you could check it out. Thanks, Caty On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Dan Rodriguez <drod2126(a)gmail.com> wrote:

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Hello Sorin, > Hello Clemens, > > Make sure you are not using IE Compatibility mode. As far as I know,

the

bottom tabs like comments, attachments look ugly because Compatibility

Mode

is enabled.

Ahem, cough, cough, that was actually the cause of my problems :-/

IE8 is supported by XWiki 4 and 5, so contributions are more than

welcomed.

Before reporting an issue or making a pull request, please check http://jira.xwiki.org if they have not been already reported.

In case I really start working on something I will better check the issue tracker before ... however for now everything looks ok from here. Thanks, Clemens > Best regards, > Sorin B. > > > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar < > c.robbenhaar(a)espresto.com> wrote: > >> >> I am wondering about the support for IE 8 in XWiki5.x >> >> There are a few layout bugs in XWiki5 (actually been there in XWiki4

>> much as I can remember) >> that do not directly hamper functionality but simply look ugly, like: >> >> - scrollbars around the outer frame of the Editor >> - tabs for comments, etc at the bottom of the page >> are stacked on top of each other instead of displayed left to right >> >> I am thinking of patching things for my instance so they look better

> IE8, > and I am wondering if IE 8 is still officially supported, and if yes, > if patches for such layout glitches are of any interest. > > Cheers, > Clemens >

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Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar

4:11 p.m.

I tested it, and it does not work for me. It seems the <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" /> is only effective if it is placed before the first <link ...> element in the head, i.e. here after the title latest. In its current place it simply comes too late. Moving it up should help. Fixing it apache-side with a header is of course an option that "simply works for me" now. Thanks everyone for all the pointers, Clemens

...

Hello Sorin, > Hello Clemens, > > Make sure you are not using IE Compatibility mode. As far as I know,

the

bottom tabs like comments, attachments look ugly because Compatibility

Mode

is enabled.

Ahem, cough, cough, that was actually the cause of my problems :-/

IE8 is supported by XWiki 4 and 5, so contributions are more than

welcomed.

Before reporting an issue or making a pull request, please check http://jira.xwiki.org if they have not been already reported.

> IE8, > and I am wondering if IE 8 is still officially supported, and if yes, > if patches for such layout glitches are of any interest. > > Cheers, > Clemens >

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Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)

20 Aug 20 Aug

8:37 a.m.

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wrote:

> Clemens, > > Manually switching to the proper IE standards mode is a quick fix, but I > don't think it will solve your problem completely. You may have to

switch

> it out of Quirks mode again and again in the future. Pre IE10 versions

will

> render pages in Quirks mode for many reasons (see > http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/ie-mode.pdf). For instance, if there

is an

> xml declaration before the doctype, it will goes straight to Quirks

mode.

> XWiki does just that: > >  > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> > > I found a fix in a sample config file provided by HTML5 Boilerplate ( > http://html5boilerplate.com/). This fix ensures all IE (<10) who

navigate

> to your wiki, will see pages rendered with the proper IE Standards mode. > > If you are using Apache HTTP, you can drop this snippet in your Apache > config file, create an .htaccess file, or create a .conf file with this > snippet in the conf.d folder (preferable method): > > # > >

##############################################################################

> # # INTERNET EXPLORER > # > # > >

##############################################################################

> > # > >

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

> # | Better website experience > | > # > >

------------------------------------------------------------------------------

> > # Force IE to render pages in the highest available mode in the various > # cases when it may not: http://hsivonen.iki.fi/doctype/ie-mode.pdf. > > <IfModule mod_headers.c> > Header set X-UA-Compatible "IE=edge" > # `mod_headers` can't match based on the content-type, however, we

only

> # want to send this header for HTML pages and not for the other > resources > <FilesMatch > >

"\.(appcache|crx|css|eot|gif|htc|ico|jpe?g|js|m4a|m4v|manifest|mp4|oex|oga|ogg|ogv|otf|pdf|png|safariextz|svgz?|ttf|vcf|webapp|webm|webp|woff|xml|xpi)$">

> Header unset X-UA-Compatible > </FilesMatch> > </IfModule> > > > If you're using Nginx or something else, HTML5 Boilerplate provides

config

> examples for other server types here: https://github.com/h5bp > > Best, > Dan > > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar < > c.robbenhaar(a)espresto.com> wrote: > >> >> Hello Sorin, >> >>> Hello Clemens, >>> >>> Make sure you are not using IE Compatibility mode. As far as I know, > the >>> bottom tabs like comments, attachments look ugly because Compatibility >> Mode >>> is enabled. >> >> Ahem, cough, cough, that was actually the cause of my problems :-/ >> >>> >>> IE8 is supported by XWiki 4 and 5, so contributions are more than >> welcomed. >>> Before reporting an issue or making a pull request, please check >>> http://jira.xwiki.org if they have not been already reported. >>> >> >> In case I really start working on something I will better check the

issue

>> tracker before ... >> however for now everything looks ok from here. >> >> Thanks, >> Clemens >> >>> Best regards, >>> Sorin B. >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar < >>> c.robbenhaar(a)espresto.com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> I am wondering about the support for IE 8 in XWiki5.x >>>> >>>> There are a few layout bugs in XWiki5 (actually been there in XWiki4 > as >>>> much as I can remember) >>>> that do not directly hamper functionality but simply look ugly, like: >>>> >>>> - scrollbars around the outer frame of the Editor >>>> - tabs for comments, etc at the bottom of the page >>>> are stacked on top of each other instead of displayed left to

right

>> >> I am thinking of patching things for my instance so they look better

>> IE8, >> and I am wondering if IE 8 is still officially supported, and if yes, >> if patches for such layout glitches are of any interest. >> >> Cheers, >> Clemens >> _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs(a)xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs

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Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar

10:07 a.m.

Hi, just testet it again, and this time it works like a charm :) Thanks, Clemens

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Hi, Changed position to https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/baea818ce28752aac41619e2c177… Thanks, Caty On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar < c.robbenhaar(a)espresto.com> wrote: > > I tested it, and it does not work for me. > It seems the > <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" /> > is only effective if it is placed before the first <link ...> > element in the head, i.e. here after the title latest. > In its current place it simply comes too late. Moving it up should help. > > > Fixing it apache-side with a header is of course an option > that "simply works for me" now. > > Thanks everyone for all the pointers, > Clemens > > >> Hi, >> >> I've fixed this in http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-8907 >> Sorin when you will test 5.2M2 would be great if you could check it out. >> >> Thanks, >> Caty >>

Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)

1:05 p.m.

Hi, Thanks for testing it :) Caty On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar < c.robbenhaar(a)espresto.com> wrote:

...

Hi, just testet it again, and this time it works like a charm :) Thanks, Clemens

Hi, Changed position to

https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/baea818ce28752aac41619e2c177…

Thanks, Caty On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Clemens Klein-Robbenhaar < c.robbenhaar(a)espresto.com> wrote: > > I tested it, and it does not work for me. > It seems the > <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" /> > is only effective if it is placed before the first <link ...> > element in the head, i.e. here after the title latest. > In its current place it simply comes too late. Moving it up should help. > > > Fixing it apache-side with a header is of course an option > that "simply works for me" now. > > Thanks everyone for all the pointers, > Clemens > > >> Hi, >> >> I've fixed this in http://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-8907 >> Sorin when you will test 5.2M2 would be great if you could check it

out.

>> >> Thanks, >> Caty >>

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