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Question Forum too wide in IE8

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14 years 8 months ago - 14 years 8 months ago #1 by John
Forum too wide in IE8 was created by John
In IE8 the forum gets too wide when a photo is included. In Kunena 1.0.10 Lintzy solved it by adding some code to the CSS:

/* Fix for Internet Explorer 6*/
*html div.msgtext {
width:800px;
overflow:hidden!important;
word-wrap: break-word;
}

/*Fix for Internet Explorer 8*/
div.msgtext {
width:/***/800px9;
overflow:/***/hidden!important9;
word-wrap:/***/break-word9;
}

Unfortunately this code no longer works in Kunena 1.5.3. I'm a complete noob with CSS, can someone tell me what to change to get it working again? Pages now look like this in IE8:

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14 years 8 months ago #2 by John
Replied by John on topic Re:Forum too wide in IE8
Hmmm, in fact, by adding the screenshot, this page is too wide to fit the template also!!

Cant see or reach the edit button now!

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14 years 8 months ago - 14 years 8 months ago #3 by Lintzy
Replied by Lintzy on topic Re:Forum too wide in IE8
hm, could you test, if it works, when you set the following code at the end of kunena.forum.css?


hm, the code was not shown correct, I made a screenshot:


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14 years 8 months ago - 14 years 8 months ago #4 by John
Replied by John on topic Re:Forum too wide in IE8
I see I have an error in the backend: Upgrading to Kunena version Failed.

Your forum is missing some important updates and some functions are not working proparly!
Please try to upgrade again. If you cant upgrade to 1.5.3 Ultimate NL, you can also downgrade to the last working version.



That is weird, when I de-installed old version and re-installed new one, it didnt give any errors.

(this forum is out of proportions as well in IE8)
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14 years 8 months ago #5 by Lintzy
Replied by Lintzy on topic Re:Forum too wide in IE8
John wrote:

(this forum is out of proportions as well in IE8)[/quote]

You mean kunena.com-forum? Yes, it has not this hack integrated ;)


Did you try to upgrade again? If this fails again, unzip the kunena.package, upload it in a folder on your webspace and install from this folder by using the Joomla installation routine.

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14 years 8 months ago - 14 years 8 months ago #6 by 810
Replied by 810 on topic Re:Forum too wide in IE8
Hey Lintzy,
He is using my component. Kunena Ultimate NL 1.5.3. Its is based on JoniJnm 1.3.7.
I did yesterday send a note to JoniJnm. He is fixing the problem for the width.

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14 years 8 months ago - 14 years 8 months ago #7 by sozzled
Replied by sozzled on topic Re:Forum too wide in IE8
I haven't used IE8 for a couple of weeks now - what a blessed relief! - but there may be another solution to the problem: "compatibility view". See the following two screenshots of this discussion as viewed in Internet Explorer 8:



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14 years 8 months ago #8 by 810
Replied by 810 on topic Re:Forum too wide in IE8
compatibility view works. But i having the same problem on kunena.com, when a picture is to wide. i used always the compatibility view mode on every kunena websites.

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14 years 8 months ago #9 by John
Replied by John on topic Re:Forum too wide in IE8
Compatibility view would solve the problem only for me, not for my guests. I can't tell everyone to use compatibility view just to conceal an error in IE8. A website should look good in all browsers. Sticking my head in the sand will not make all problems go away, it just covers the problem.

P.s. you guys do a great job on Kunena but if you look at your own forum with compatibility view switched on....how do you find errors in the layout? Our guests sure cant find Compatibility view, or know this will solve the problem, they will just leave a website.

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14 years 8 months ago - 14 years 8 months ago #10 by sozzled
Warning: you are approaching a "sozzled rant" zone ...

John wrote:

I can't tell everyone to use compatibility view just to conceal an error in IE8.

What's stopping you?

Although this is off-topic to the original topic, I've read a dozen, so-called "reputable" reviews about IE8 and, basically, they conclude that, while Microsoft have made some gains with their new product, IE8 is no more more attractive (for most "ordinary" users) than alternatives like Safari, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. It's only because most Windows XP and Vista users have had IE8 forced on them in the past couple of months that IE8 enjoys its current share of the market. If users weren't press-ganged into using IE8 they would be blissfully ignorant of what it does.

Let's look at the history. Microsoft has, for years, stumbled along trying to impose their standards on the World Wide Web (but, thankfully, they've failed). For years I stuck to "good ol' IE" because it was the most-used browser. But, in recent times, Microsoft's hold on market share has been eroded. People are tired of Microsoft products turning into leviathan-sized CPU-hoggers offering little in the way of new innovation or new functionality - "bloat-ware", I call it.

IE8's big attraction seems to be "porn mode" (in-private browsing), web slices and accelerators (be still, my pounding heart!) and "proper" CSS support. But instead of making their product leaner and meaner, IE8 chugs away merely to tell you that your state-of-the-art Joomla website was "designed for older browsers". Pardon my obvious cynicism but I don't need the guys at Redmond, Washington telling me that the hard work I put into my websites is "outdated".

What is becoming more "normal" these days is for website designers to place a notice on their site's home page informing those visitors who use IE8 to switch to "compatibility view".

You may disagree, of course, and that makes for a lively debate, but I don't think we should "toe the party line" simply because Microsoft think they have an unfettered right to dictate the terms. I think a little healthy rebellion in the Internet would do a lot to send the message home that we're intelligent people, too.

People won't abandon websites because they're ignorant about what "compatability view" does, or they can't find the button. That's "Scaremongering 101" and Microsoft is probably hoping to use such tactics to intimidate web developers around the world. I refuse to be intimidated in that fashion. If I lose visitors at my website it's not because my site design is lousy (or "outdated" to paraphrase in IE8 terms). That's nonsense.

Cheers

sozz :laugh:
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