IE optimized CSS in THIS forum??

seventhguardian · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:14 am Post subject: IE optimized CSS in THIS forum??

Did any one notice that this LINUX forum uses a "fancy" CSS for M$ Internet Explorer?

Well, I did:

IQgryn · l33t Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 764 Location: WI, USA

If you look at the css file being imported, it's about 15 lines long. Also, I'm pretty sure it's only imported if you use IE to browse the forums. I don't see the issue.

seventhguardian · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:16 am Post subject:

IQgryn · l33t Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Posts: 764 Location: WI, USA

Ideally, IE wouldn't be different. Unfortunately, it is. While we don't support IE having the quirks it has, it won't make us look very good if the predominant browser can't render the site properly. Do you really think that someone visiting the forums from their Windows machine, using IE, is going to realize that it's IE's fault the site looks bad? I think it's much more likely they'll think something along the lines of "Those Gentoo (or Linux) guys don't know what they're doing! This site looks terrible!".

tomk · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 1:25 pm Post subject:

The Gentoo style used here was modified from the default subSilver one, this is where it's come from:

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/templates/subSilver/formIE.css

I guess Kyle (aka Nitro) who did the work didn't bother removing it
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alienjon · Veteran Joined: 09 Feb 2005 Posts: 1709

Plus, whats to say that this is 'optimized' code? Maybe in IE (if someone tested it in there) something is displayed incorrectly and the import function (which only works in IE) is used there specifically to only load that into that browser. There are some things in CSS which are not standardized quite yet (just some certain settings that only one browser will support and others won't)

anello · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject:

I'm quite often browsing this forum with IE when I'm at work and forced to use windows as my client most of the time, so why not!?!
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timeBandit · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:36 pm Post subject:

codergeek42 · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 4:47 am Post subject:

Please remember, too, that users trying to get help installing Gentoo may not already know of alternative browsers; so when they post their questions from Windows might be using IE. Also note that many of us may browse from school/work/etc where it's difficult or near impossible to use an alternative browser choice (unfortunate as that may be).
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Naib · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:24 am Post subject:

Omega21 · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 1:39 am Post subject:

It's good to support as much as possible, even if you have a dislike for the software.
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i92guboj · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:08 am Post subject:

To promote intolerance is not the way of this community. That is the only policy here. Tolerance and respect.

That some random company is intolerant of disrespectful to any other group does not mean that we have to put ourselves to their same level of inhumanity, does it? That little css snippet opens lots of doors, and is helpfull to thousands of persons each single day. It does not harm anyone either (no, it does not harm free software, don't go that way), so, to quote a random song "let it be".