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

Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp sterling at hanenkamp.com
Tue Aug 7 20:33:27 EDT 2007


Henry,

Thomas made another patch just yesterday, I think, that fixes that problem
too. If you get the latest version of the file, that bug should be fixed.

On 8/7/07, Henry Baragar <Henry.Baragar at instantiated.ca> wrote:
>
> Andrew,
>
> I have downloaded the entire jifty.js and placed it in my
> project/share/web/static/js.
>
> The patch was partially successful.  It looks like the empty elements are
> no
> longer shown in IE.  However, it also does not show the elements when
> there
> is an error message (and content in the element):-(  I am using IE
> 7.0.5730.11 running on XP Pro 2002 SP 2 (running in VMWare).
>
> Any suggestions as to where I should look to track down the problem?
>
> Regards,
> Henry
>
> ps. Firefox still works correctly.  HB
>
> On Thursday, August 02 2007 09:35 am, Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp wrote:
> > Henry,
> >
> > I just committed r3765, which is a start towards making Jifty pretty on
> IE.
> > I'm getting a weird issue where several elements aren't getting redrawn
> > when showing a DIV (but reappear on hide or by selecting the text in
> those
> > elements: dumb). That might just be my layout, though (one of those that
> > needs a position: relative to make IE happy or something).
> >
> > http://svn.jifty.org/index.cgi/jifty/revision/?rev=3765
> >
> > Anyway, I hope this is a step in the right direction to making your
> client
> > happy. I'm sure it will make our client firms happier when they answer
> our
> > survey's from IE.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andrew
> >
> > 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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