serious IE7 quirks

(10 posts) (3 voices)

1. 

   HeliR
   Member

   Guys, Elliott - using an elder laptop to write around my website I found my entire layout broken:

   fancy-search covers the whole #primary_menu
   the menu disappears behind the frontpage slider

   Now this is something just present in IE7, but I could repeat it in IE9 using F12 - compatibilty-mode IE7

   I quickfixed it with some CSS - but was surprised to discover that you have the very same problem with your own demo-site:
   http://themes.mysitemyway.com/?theme=Dejavu

   now for others this are my fixes - though I would suggest you have a look on that for the next update - I still have about a 1000 hits per month using IE6 and IE7

   #fancy_search {
   background:none;
   background-color: white; /*#F6F6F6; */
   margin-top: 0;
   right:20px;
   width: 130px;
   }

   #fancy_search form .text {color: navy; font-weight:bold;}
   #fancy_search FORM .submit {position:absolute;color:white;}

   #primary_menu, .jqueryslidemenu ul li ul, .jqueryslidemenu ul li a:hover, .jqueryslidemenu ul li:hover a {background-color:whitesmoke;}
   #primary_menu, #megaMenu {background-color:white;z-index:1000;}

   Posted 7 months ago #
2. 

   Elliott
   Support

   Hello Heli Retzek,

   Thanks for posting your solution. Like themeforest we don't officially support IE7 but we try to get it working as best as possible.

   We'll most likely see this fixed in the next Dejavu update.

   Posted 7 months ago #
3. 

   HeliR
   Member

   its crazy mut my analytic logs show that about 20% of visitors use IE6 or IE7 !!

   have the IE7 no-where installed, so I cannot test if the plugin IE7-dedection-script actually works, it does not perform in IE9 in the compatibility mode, neither on IPAD using IE6-mode.

   in addidion I have put following line in header.php under the body-section

   <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.microsoft.com/germany/msdn/components/ie/ieinfobar.js"> </script>

   cannot test if it works, with the cross-browser online test I get an empty page vor IE7

   if you have one installed, please have a look at http://www.homeopathy.at

   tx

   maybe

   Posted 7 months ago #
4. 

   Elliott
   Support

   Hello Heli Retzek,

   It looks okay on my end. If you hit F12 in IE9 you can switch to IE7 mode.

   Posted 7 months ago #
5. 

   slapshot
   Member

   My client was using IE7 in a site I did for him using Dejavu. At first I added CSS similar to Heli Retzek did above. However he is not using posts so I change the search to display:none; to hide it all together.

   I looked at the Analytics report and found that 18.28% if the people looking at the site in the last month used IE7 and 1.49% used IE6. As much as we hate to do it, we still need to make sure the IE7 people can view the site as well as possible.

   Posted 7 months ago #
6. 

   Elliott
   Support

   Hello slapshot,

   Did you try setting a width to the fancy_search? Go ahead and send us a link to your site so we can take a closer look.

   Posted 7 months ago #
7. 

   slapshot
   Member

   I did set a width and it worked fine. I decided not to use the search because the client is not using posts at all. The site is using your Fancy Images shortcodes to link to online photo galleries where he offers photos for sale. I have a bit more work to do on the site and then I will post a link. The theme is perfect for this application.

   Posted 7 months ago #
8. 

   Elliott
   Support

   Alrighty, if you want to keep the search for your pages then you can also do this, http://mysitemyway.com/docs/index.php/Enable_Page_Searching.

   Posted 7 months ago #
9. 

   slapshot
   Member

   Thanks for the link, good information to know. The site is http://www.burnsphoto.com I used the shortcodes on pages to go to a service the client uses to sell his images. He is happy, so I am happy.

   If I add the code to search the pages, would the titles under the Fancy Images be searchable? He might like that. Could then search for all of the page that have a team name. If that is not the case, I will leave things as they are.

   Posted 7 months ago #
10. 

    Elliott
    Support

    I haven't tested it thoroughly but when Wordpress searches I think it looks for the post title and content so I would assume it's the same for pages.

    Posted 7 months ago #

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