[MacPorts] #14062: Website does not render properly in IE7

[paul beard]

On Jan 24, 2008 12:47 PM, Mark Hattam <mark at dxradio.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> >Subject: Re: [MacPorts] #14062: Website does not render properly in IE7
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> >Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:45:51 -0800
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> >Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:45:55 +0000
> >To: wsiegrist at apple.com, jmpp at macports.org
> >From: Mark Hattam <mark at dxradio.demon.co.uk>
> >Subject: Re: [MacPorts] #14062: Website does not render properly in IE7
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> >If I save the "offered" downloaded file to disk ... change the .php
> >into .htm (or .html) ... the file then opens up in IE7 and renders
> >everything.
> >
> >Changing the relative links for the .css etc to absolute links,
> >makes it look good too.
> >
> >In doing so, I haven't changed the <xml .... at the top of the file.
> >That's still there and IE7 doesn't appear to mind.
> >
> >So the difference is that IE7 doesn't understand or mis-interprets
> >the type of file being sent from the server, and thinks that it
> >can't render it. Other php pages (on other sites) work fine (usually
> >:-) ), but the server is sending something "different" here.
> >
> >Mark
> >
> >--
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> >
> >
> >At 19:47 +0000 24/1/08, MacPorts wrote:
> >>#14062: Website does not render properly in IE7
>
> >>----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------
> >>   Reporter:  wsiegrist at apple.com  |       Owner:  jmpp at macports.org
> >>       Type:  defect               |      Status:  new
> >>   Priority:  Normal               |   Milestone:  Website &
> Documentation
> >>  Component:  website              |     Version:
> >>Resolution:                       |    Keywords:  ie7 windows
> content-type
>
> >>----------------------------------+-----------------------------------------
> >>Changes (by jmpp at macports.org):
> >>
> >>  * cc: jmpp at macports.org (added)
> >>   * owner:  wsiegrist at apple.com => jmpp at macports.org
> >>   * component:  server/hosting => website
> >>
> >>Comment:
> >>
> >>  I'm sure that's because of the `echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\"
> >>  encoding=\"$encoding\"?>\n";` declaration at the top of each of our
> pages,
> >>  which I crafted to strictly adhere to the XHTML standard, not caring
> too
> >>  much about how bad IE handles that particular line, I admit. I don't
> think
> >>  it's a server level PHP issue or anything of the sort.
> >>
> >>  Personally I have no feeling about catering to such a broken browser
> as IE
> >>  (there's always Firefox for Windows ;-), but I guess we could remove
> that
> >>  line even if only for the purpose of giving MacPorts a wider
> net-surfing
> >>  audience...
> >>
> >>  -jmpp


There's an interesting discussion of IE7/8/whatever and its rendering
strategy here <http://rc3.org/2008/01/23/the-implications-of-ie8/>.

-- 
Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/
<paulbeard at gmail.com/paulbeard at gmail.com>
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