Joel, Glad to read that I am not totally going nuts. Unfortunately I need to support IE6,7 and 8... so using tables is currently inevitable. I'm curious to see your new layout support.
David On Jul 16, 4:31 pm, Joel Webber <j...@google.com> wrote: > Oddly enough, that's correct. The lack of doctype, or an explicitly "quirks" > doctype as below, always puts IE8 into compatibility mode, which is pretty > much identical to IE7 -- so you get the ie6/7 compiled permutation, because > the ie8 one wouldn't work at all. Another way of saying this is that there's > no such thing as IE8 quirks mode. Weird, eh? > Do keep in mind that GWT apps generally work in standards mode, but your > layout may do some surprising things, especially for some of the table-based > layouts such as StackPanel. I'm working feverishly to get a replacement > layout system finished that will eliminate the need for most tables in > layout, and allow us to move forward towards (eventual) standards-mode-only > support. > > > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 10:27 AM, stuckagain <david.no...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I was trying out recompiling with GWT 1.7 to see if I could remove my > > hacks to disable the IFrame trick in dialogs and I noticed that it was > > still active. > > > It looks like ie8 is only triggered if you use the HTML 4.01 strict > > mode. > > > If I use the transitional doctype it falls back to ie6. > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > > > Is this really the purpose ? > > > David- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
