Re: IE testing / fixing

Folks, we now have an Apache bug reporting system up and running at  
https://issues.apache.org/jira/

I highly encourage you to create an account and start entering in  
those bugs!

Also, if you can help in any way fixing those bugs (especially if you  
have access to a Windows machine with IE on it, 'cos funnily enough  
all JSPWiki developers use Macs), please do so!  They are the only  
thing standing between us and a release of 2.6, and I know that you  
all want it :-)

/Janne

On 14 Oct 2007, at 01:06, Murray Altheim wrote:

> Dirk Frederickx wrote:
>> All,
>> JSPWiki v2.6.0 is close to its release, now that Janne upgraded
>> jspwiki.org to v2.5.143.
>> The new template has been extensively tested on Safari and FF.
>> However, testing on IE is incomplete.  (mainly due to time reasons)
>> In general, IE6 is workable  (i have no clue on IE7) , but still some
>> annoying issues are unresolved.
>> Here are some of the known outstanding issues:
>> -Wrong formatting in the header.jsp (floats not handled properly  
>> by ie)
>> -The width of the searchbox drop down is to small
>> - Selection of text is not working in edit mode.
>> - Pages with wide content make the Favorites menu shift to the bottom
>> Any  help to identify the outstanding IE-x issues would be greatly
>> appreciated. Of course, fixes are welcome to.
>
> Dirk,
>
> Two things I can think of immediately:
>
> I've sent in a patch for another: in templates where the userbox is
> inside favorites, I've separated the username from the status (e.g.,
> "(not logged in)" in the i18n so that the <br /> is in the template,
> not the i18n. That way, template designers can choose if they want
> a line break or not. In the current i18n in English there isn't a
> line break where there should be, so the status ends up overrunning
> the box and gets obscured -- also fixed in my patch.
>
> Also, in the zebra tables, if a row is too long and overruns the
> page it is currently transparent. On templates that use a background
> color other than white or have a border this becomes evident. The
> background color of all tables components should be made opaque.
>
> If I can remember others I'll pass them along.
>
> Oh, one thing I always change but is admittedly aesthetic: most
> people have been trained to consider oranges and reds as alert
> colors, i.e., warnings, whereas greens suggest things are okay.
> Yellow green is also the most visible to the eye. For those reasons
> I alter that orange background color on hovered actions to a light
> yellow green. I was going to say you can see this on the Ceryle
> wiki but I realized the version that's up there now is the old
> 2.4.x template; all my new templates use yellow-green. Just an
> idea anyway.
>
> Murray
>
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