[gwt-contrib] Re: IE8 detection in GWT 1.7 clarification needed

2009-07-17 Thread Thomas Broyer
On 16 juil, 17:12, stuckagain david.no...@gmail.com wrote: 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. Hit F12 in IE8 (or choose Development Tools from the Tools menu); you'll get the ie8

[gwt-contrib] Re: IE8 detection in GWT 1.7 clarification needed

2009-07-17 Thread stuckagain
Well, Alltogether the GWT 1.7 is supposed to have IE8 support, but you have to make sure that you change the doctype to strict mode or you will never actually use it. Is the strict doctype now the default one when you create a new GWT application ? I still have an old GWT Plugin in eclipse - not

[gwt-contrib] Re: IE8 detection in GWT 1.7 clarification needed

2009-07-16 Thread Joel Webber
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

[gwt-contrib] Re: IE8 detection in GWT 1.7 clarification needed

2009-07-16 Thread stuckagain
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