[jifty-devel] IE rendering problem for empty HTML elements

[Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp]

I'm dinking around with some JS tonight anyway. Maybe I'll see what I can
find. Thanks for the tip!

On 8/1/07, Kevin Falcone <falcone at bestpractical.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Aug 1, 2007, at 9:00 PM, Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I've looked into it a bit, but I haven't tackled the issue.
> > Basically, IE does not always collapse empty tags, which, if I
> > recall correctly, is not actually a wrong interpretation of the
> > specifications, but happens to differ from how the rest of the
> > others do it. Whether it's wrong or not, it is a difficulty and it
> > is Jifty's problem.
> >
> > Our clients are primarily IE users as well and I haven't gotten far
> > into fixing it because I haven't had a chance to read through the
> > JavaScript that handles the canonicalization and error handling
> > that inserts text into the empty DIVs causing the ugliness.
> >
> > The solutions I've thought of involve either not rendering the DIVs
> > at all unless they need to be filled and then adding code to fill
> > them when ever the Ajax routines run, or set display to none and
> > make them appear during the Ajax stuff.
>
> toggling the display is  pretty doable in that JS.
> Unfortunately, I don't have IE (mac and linux) so I really can't test
> a solution.
>
> You want the code around lines 260 and 275 where we frob innerHTML
>
> -kevin
>
> >
> > Jesse or others that have dealt with the JavaScript involved may
> > have better ideas, but that's just not a part of Jifty I've read
> > through yet.
> >
> > On 8/1/07, Henry Baragar <Henry.Baragar at instantiated.ca> wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Has anyone come up with a work-around to this problem with IE?
> >
> > Our client is viewing this more as a problem with our application
> > than with IE
> > (since they and their clients mostly use IE).
> >
> > We will need to implement a work-around, if somebody does not
> > already have
> > one.  Is the problem simpler in the case where AJAX is not needed
> > (as in our
> > case)?
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Henry
> >
> > On Friday, January 26 2007 04:55 am, Agent Zhang wrote:
> > > On 12/3/06, Jesse Vincent <jesse at bestpractical.com> wrote:
> > > > I think we'd probably want to add a class of "hidden" or somesuch,
> > > > rather than an explicit styling. But what I'd really like is
> > for hlb and
> > > > trs to weigh in here, since both of them know more about the
> > issues
> > > > involved than I do.
> > >
> > > I'm still suffering from such issues in IE. How about dynamically
> > > adding a class like "empty" and let the user to decide what to do
> > with
> > > it? I think it's safe for existing Jifty apps.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Agent
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