I vote for giving Bob admin rights!

Kalle


On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Bob Harner <bobhar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Howard (or anybody else with Confluence admin rights),
>
> Can you paste the template in one more time?  I've updated the
> template in SVN again, with a work-around.
>
>     /tapestry/tapestry-site/branches/post-5.2-site/autoexport_template.txt
>
> The Apache infrastructure guys marked as "invalid" the INFRA-4248 JIRA
> issue I filed (no surprise there), So now I've gone in another
> direction, forcing IE into standards mode using the "x-ua-compatible"
> meta tag. (For the curious, see
> http://www.alistapart.com/articles/beyonddoctype)
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Bob Harner <bobhar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Unfortunately, the IE problem persists. The DOCTYPE declaration is
>> still not being rendered as the first item in the HTML.
>>
>> I checked several other Apache web sites -- Shiro, Directory, Camel,
>> ActiveMQ -- which also use the auto-export process, and they also all
>> render in Quirks mode in IE due to having the DOCTYPE in the wrong
>> place, even though their auto-export templates
>> (e.g.http://shiro.apache.org/confluence-auto-export.data/shiroConfluenceAutoExportTemplate.vhtml.txt)
>> are correct. So I guess this problem is caused by the export plugin
>> itself. Maybe the Apache infrastructure guys are forcing the license
>> to the top for bureaucratic reasons.
>>
>> Unless somebody has another idea, I'll file a ticket with the Apache
>> Infrastructure team. I don't think they really want to support the
>> auto-export plugin, though.
>>
>> Alternatively, we could change the site design to work well in Quirks
>> mode. But I'd really rather not do that.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Howard Lewis Ship <hls...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Updated, export in progress.
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Bob Harner <bobhar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> The problem is that the export process is causing the DOCTYPE
>>>> declaration to appear below the license comment block, despite the
>>>> template having it the other way around. It turns out that not having
>>>> the DOCTYPE declaration as the very first thing on the page causes IE
>>>> to remain in quirks mode.
>>>>
>>>> I updated the file in SVN again, moving the velocity directives below
>>>> the DOCTYPE declaration. Can you (or anyone) try pasting it into the
>>>> admin console again, making sure that <!DOCTYPE html> is the very
>>>> first line in the resulting text? (Or if you want, give me the site
>>>> admin rights to do so myself.)
>>>>
>>>> Then I'll just publish a single page so we can see if it is right
>>>> before exporting the whole site again.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:48 PM, Bob Harner <bobhar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> Unfortunately, the new DOCTYPE didn't seem to help, even though my
>>>>> tests showed that it would. My IE 8 is still rendering the page in
>>>>> Quirks mode. More investigation needed...
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Howard Lewis Ship <hls...@gmail.com> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> Export is in progress, now.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Howard Lewis Ship <hls...@gmail.com> 
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> On it!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Bob Harner <bobhar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> For many many months now, our nice Confluence-generated documentation
>>>>>>>> has not looked right in IE, due to IE rendering in quirks mode. The
>>>>>>>> simple fix is to switch to a proper doctype, such as the HTML5 one, in
>>>>>>>> the auto-export template. I have done that today and committed the
>>>>>>>> change, but somebody with Confluence admin rights (such as Uli) will
>>>>>>>> need to paste the contents of the newly-committed template
>>>>>>>> (/tapestry/tapestry-site/branches/post-5.2-site/autoexport_template.txt)
>>>>>>>> into the admin screens as described at the bottom of
>>>>>>>> http://tapestry.apache.org/confluence-site-setup.html
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Once that is done and the whole site re-exported, IE will like
>>>>>>>> Tapestry once again.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks in advance to whoever takes care of this!
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Howard M. Lewis Ship
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Creator of Apache Tapestry
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The source for Tapestry training, mentoring and support. Contact me to
>>>>>>> learn how I can get you up and productive in Tapestry fast!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (971) 678-5210
>>>>>>> http://howardlewisship.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Howard M. Lewis Ship
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Creator of Apache Tapestry
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The source for Tapestry training, mentoring and support. Contact me to
>>>>>> learn how I can get you up and productive in Tapestry fast!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (971) 678-5210
>>>>>> http://howardlewisship.com
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Howard M. Lewis Ship
>>>
>>> Creator of Apache Tapestry
>>>
>>> The source for Tapestry training, mentoring and support. Contact me to
>>> learn how I can get you up and productive in Tapestry fast!
>>>
>>> (971) 678-5210
>>> http://howardlewisship.com
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