Guys and gals
Perhaps now some of you will listen to what I have been saying for some time
rather than cherry picking the bits you want to hear ...
htlm5shiv.js provides fixes to give html5 compliance to some extent to older IE
versions. Applying it for IE less than 9 is correct (main site needs an IF
statement!), but to go with that javascript are normally some .css fixes, and a
check of the php.net generated source will show that these are applied for IE7
and IE9, but not IE8! However even the odd fixes here do not cover all of the
problems anyway :(
One reason for using a base like bootstrap is so that WE do not have to worry
about these legacy hacks, and Bootstrap2 did claim to support IE7 but this was
dropped from Bootstrap3. Ink which I am using as my own base supports IE7 and 8
but specifically notes that IE7 only supports fixed layouts! Since some of the
trying to work with had reworked everything for 'bootstrap' without considering
all the ramifications, switching back has proven problematic. I still say that
bootstrap should be stripped from the main site!
http://www.sitepoint.com/support-old-browsers-responsive-web-design/ is what I'm
currently looking at to fix my own problems, but as I've indicated already since
many of my (paying) customers are stuck with older versions of IE the correct
fix for them is to retain pre html5 layouts. The problem is that I don't think
that THIS base will play well with cherry picking parts of Bootstrap for the
main site. It will probably clear up a few of the remaining problems with all
the other sub domains though!
I have wasted some time trying to tidy up wiki.php.net on legacy browsers but
not being able to clone the existing content to play with a local copy of the
site this has hit a brick wall. I've solved my own 'search' problem by cloning
the live site as html but this is not something that is usable going forward.
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