Re: Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-09 Thread Kevin Chadwick
And how would I use it on Debian when there is no Internet Explorer 7 available for non-Windows platforms? Wine? The purpose is to provide a web thingy, hosted on a Debian platform, that even clients behind a legacy browser from non-free distribution can see as they should if they were

Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-08 Thread David Prévot
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Prévot taf...@debian.org * Package name: ie7-js Version : 2.1~beta4 Upstream Author : Dean Edwards dean.edwa...@gmail.com * URL : http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/ * License : MIT Programming Lang: JavaScript

Re: Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 04/08/2013 09:23 PM, David Prévot wrote: The purpose would be to provide it, via a libjs-ie7, in order to be used as a third party in other packages like spip. As such, I intend to maintain it under the Debian Javascript umbrella. And how would I use it on Debian when there is no Internet

Re: Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-08 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Le 08/04/2013 15:29, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz a écrit : And how would I use it on Debian when there is no Internet Explorer 7 available for non-Windows platforms? Wine? The purpose is to provide a web thingy, hosted on a Debian platform,

Re: Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-08 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello, On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:29:21 +0200 John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 04/08/2013 09:23 PM, David Prévot wrote: The purpose would be to provide it, via a libjs-ie7, in order to be used as a third party in other packages like spip. As such, I intend to

Re: Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-08 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
On 04/08/2013 09:43 PM, Andrew Shadura wrote: It's a shim. You provide the support for the missing features right on your website. When a user loads a page in IE7, this JavaScript detects this and enables replacement implementations of those things. Same as jQuery gives you a $ function, but

Re: Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-08 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 2:29 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 04/08/2013 09:23 PM, David Prévot wrote: The purpose would be to provide it, via a libjs-ie7, in order to be used as a third party in other packages like spip. As such, I intend to maintain it

Re: Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting John Paul Adrian Glaubitz (2013-04-08 21:45:34) On 04/08/2013 09:43 PM, Andrew Shadura wrote: It's a shim. You provide the support for the missing features right on your website. When a user loads a page in IE7, this JavaScript detects this and enables replacement implementations

Re: Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-08 Thread David Prévot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, Le 08/04/2013 16:41, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : For general use I believe, however, that html5shiv has proven a better shim. It is part of Modernizr already packaged for Debian. AFAICT, html5shiv is not in Debian, nor part of the

Re: Bug#705015: ITP: ie7-js -- help Internet Explorer behave like a standards-compliant browser

2013-04-08 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le lundi 8 avril 2013 23:35:42, David Prévot a écrit : Hi, Le 08/04/2013 16:41, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit : For general use I believe, however, that html5shiv has proven a better shim. It is part of Modernizr already packaged for Debian. AFAICT, html5shiv is not in Debian, nor part of