[themes] Re: IE7 Compatibility issue needs your attention

Gunnar Langemark gunnar at langemark.com
Mon Jan 23 18:33:47 UTC 2006


In my mail client he identifies as Christian Berg.
Also - I don't read it as he refers to Drupal as a piece of crap, but 
rather that he thinks it should be easy for Drupal to support IE7 - 
which he thinks is a little piece of crap.
I may be mistaken though.

Best
Gunnar

Kobus Myburgh wrote:
> Is it just me or...
>
> I might be misunderstanding this person's (xeniac) intentions here, but if I am not mistaken, it seems he referred to Drupal as a piece of crap? No wonder he does not want to introduce himself.
>
> Kobus
>
>
>   
>>>> xeniac at gmx.at 1/20/2006 8:39:42 PM >>>
>>>>         
> Hello there!
> I'm fresh to this list, but don't want to intruduce my self.
>
> Edgard Durand wrote:
>   
>> Why do they think the problem is on our side? Unless they are addressing an issue with our themes not adhering to standards, they don't have a valid point.
>>
>> I suspect this IE7 release will break many sites, just to force people to code in a way only this browser can understand.
>>
>> My suggestion is that we need to keep ourselves very skeptical about their incompatibility reports and keep focusing on standards. If they want to release a broken browser that's up to them.
>>
>> Let's see what those supposed incompatibilities are.
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>>     
>
> The Drupal Theme/Page has some flaws, Tidy gives me this on the 
> drupal.org Startpage:
> Zeile 61 Zeichen 74 - Warnung: unescaped & or unknown entity "&task"
> Zeile 61 Zeichen 84 - Warnung: unescaped & or unknown entity "&id"
> Zeile 190 Zeichen 54 - Warnung: <wbr> is not approved by W3C
> Zeile 195 Zeichen 110 - Warnung: <wbr> is not approved by W3C
> Zeile 201 Zeichen 102 - Warnung: <wbr> is not approved by W3C
> Zeile 217 Zeichen 1206 - Warnung: <wbr> is not approved by W3C
> Zeile 217 Zeichen 1626 - Warnung: <wbr> is not approved by W3C
> Zeile 15 Zeichen 85 - Warnung: <link> inserting "type" attribute
> Zeile 21 Zeichen 9 - Warnung: <a> attribute "href" lacks value
>
> Also some Pages with have problems on 1024x768.
>
> I know it's Microsoft, but if they really want to commit Bugreports, 
> Screenshots, workarounds or anything else to make the site better 
> visible/useable for the upcoming 80% of all webusers.
> Why should anyone stand against it. Also IE7 should support the most 
> Webstandards at startup, so it should be easy to support this little 
> peace of crap.
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