[ale] OT Browser Issues with IE11

[Brian Mathis]

    "I was not recommending changing browsers to a customer."
No, but other comments here did.

Your original message said:
    "There have been revisions to the code on the site."
Did you mean to say there have been NO revisions?

Either way, it should not be too difficult to test this out.  Get IE11
running on something and see what's broken.  If you have no system
available to do this (i.e. no Windows systems), then get one.  Linux is
great but if you're supporting a company with customers, you need to be
able to see what they see, and that means having Windows around, at least
for testing.


❧ Brian Mathis


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:57 AM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:

> Brian,
>
> I was not recommending changing browsers to a customer. Because of the
> timing of the first report I am aware of I suspect an update on March Patch
> Tuesday is responsible. What is interesting is no other users with other
> browsers are reporting problems including earlier versions of IE.
>
> Jay
>
> On 04/14/2014 10:40 AM, Brian Mathis wrote:
>
>> IE has a few different rendering modes to try to maintain backwards
>> compatibility with older broken methods. You can either tell it which mode
>> to use by adding something to the HTML code, otherwise it will try to
>> auto-detect. The changes may have confused the detection and now it's using
>> another mode. I'll leave it to you to Google about the specifics of this.
>>
>> Despite other comments, IE has gotten much better in recent versions (but
>> nothing is perfect), and like it or not running a web site means you need
>> to deal with it. Telling people to use another browser is not an acceptable
>> solution for any business in the modern world.
>>
>>
>> ❧ Brian Mathis
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com <mailto:
>> jslozier at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hello,
>>
>>     Recently some of our customers reported having problems using my
>>     employer's website with IE11. Previous versions of IE did not have
>>     any problems. Users of Firefox, Opera, and Chrome do not have any
>>     problems. Also, I tested Midori and again no issues. There have
>>     been revisions to the code on the site. I do not have specifics on
>>     the problem
>>
>>     Does anyone know of any changes with IE11 that impacts websites?
>>
>>     Or is MS trying to break compatibility with web standards again?
>>
>>     --     Jay Lozier
>>     jslozier at gmail.com <mailto:jslozier at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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