Re: [Bodington-developers] IE 7 issues

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that's ok. ie stopped being supported for mac about 2-3 years ago. we  
have firefox and safari!_)
s.

On 13 Nov 2006, at 16:55, M Thomas wrote:

> I think I've found the problem... see below:
>
> Internet Explorer 7 won't understand the star html hack
> The star html hack worked in the opposite way to the child  
> selector, in that any CSS commands that use this hack are only seen  
> by Internet Explorer. So, to send commands only to Internet  
> Explorer (including IE on the Mac), you can use:
> * html #foo {width: 400px;}
>
> The * essentially means a wildcard (i.e. it refers to any and every  
> element). The above rule will apply to any element assigned  
> id="foo" that's nested within the <html> tag (which of course it  
> will be), which is itself nested inside any other HTML element.
>
> Huh? Surely the <html> tag can't be nested inside another tag!?  
> Well, no of course not... but Internet Explorer 6 and before  
> disagree and will actually obey the above command. Internet  
> Explorer 7 will however (correctly) ignore the above command, along  
> with all other non-IE browsers.
>
> From - http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/css/ 
> internet-explorer-7.shtml
>
>
>
> I removed the * from all of the lines in the section "/* Hides from  
> IE5-mac \*/" of the bs_virtual_author.css and this seemed to fix  
> the rendering... but it probably breaks it in IE5 for Mac
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> On 10/11/06, Sean Mehan <se...@sm...> wrote:
>
> Well spotted, Michael. Tis a bug! In 2.8 as well. ahhh, users  
> actually using!-)
>
> s.
>
> On 10 Nov 2006, at 14:07, M Thomas wrote:
>
>> It's breaks in 2.8 too, when you lower the size...
>>
>> On 10/11/06, M Thomas <m....@gm...> wrote:
>> It isn't the entry, but the fact that the size of the row drops  
>> below a certain size and then IE7's rendering breaks...
>>
>>
>> M
>>
>> On 10/11/06, M Thomas < m....@gm...> wrote:
>> I've worked out what is causing it, the style.css has the  
>> following entry under the body section:
>>
>>     font-size: 0.90em;
>>
>> If this is removed IE7 renders it...
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/11/06, M Thomas <m....@gm...> wrote:
>> Lol... I don't...
>>
>> but joe public do !o)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/11/06, Sean Mehan < se...@sm...> wrote:
>> Don't use IE!-)
>>
>>
>> On 10 Nov 2006, at 13:33, M Thomas wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Colin,
>>>
>>> See attached screen grab. In Bod 2.6 when you have the resource  
>>> icon size set to small it seems to render them bizzarely. It  
>>> seems fine in 2.8???
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/11/06, Colin Tatham < col...@ou...> wrote:
>>> M Thomas wrote:
>>> > As I'm sure you are all aware(?) there is an issue with IE 7  
>>> rendering
>>> > the list of files at the bottom of a resource within Bodington.
>>>
>>> Didn't know there was a problem...
>>> We have done some testing of WebLearn, and there didn't seem to  
>>> be any problems. Can you give us
>>> more details of the rendering problem with the uploaded file  
>>> listing you're seeing?
>>>
>>> Colin
>>>
>>> > Before I
>>> > look into the problem I thought I'd check to see if anyone  
>>> knows what is
>>> > the cause/solution is.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> >
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