[Xerte] Re: IE bug

Fri Jul 26 17:06:40 BST 2013

Hi Nick,

No apology necessary - we're delighted when our users find bugs and tell us about them so that we can fix them for all - any misunderstanding was mostly my fault for not listening properly!!

I doubt those tags that you've spotted have caused this although I can see why you might think that as they are a big change from what was there before - as you can see from the revisions over 450 code changes have gone on between those two versions so it's highly likely that something has been missed when updating the preview versions (v1.9) to the final page models...

What would really help would be to have access to an LO (if that server is public) that exhibits this problem so that I might try to trace the issue. If you are able to give me access to than then you can email off list. Alternatively, I'll see what I can come up with by trial and error...

Thanks again for your patience and I'll be in touch...

Regards,

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University

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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Sheppard, Nick
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 4:51 PM
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: IE bug

Screenshots both Chrome which is fine but version on left doesn't render properly in IE8. See earlier screenshot. Would dig it out but on mobile now!

Thanks for help and sorry not to be clear

Nick
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From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] on behalf of Smith, John [J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk]
Sent: 26 July 2013 16:34
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: IE bug

Ah ok, sorry, I understand now, the code was changed in order to allow IE9 and 10 to render HTML5 which it doesn’t inv1.9 as it only runs in IE8 compatibility mode – so it’s possible things could be different…

I’m looking at the screenshots though so wondering what it is that you can see that I can’t that is not rendering properly? I can only see the scrollbar difference?

Regards,

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Sheppard, Nick
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 4:24 PM
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: IE bug

Hi John

XOT 2.0 (svn r1057) is the one installed for me at the University and is displaying the code…but this is also the one not rendering correctly in IE8 which is confounding me.

My own install renders OK in IE8 (though no header code) and is - Xerte Online Toolkits v1.9 (from SVN rev 601 http://code.google.com/p/xerteonlinetoolkits)

Nick

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 26 July 2013 16:09
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: IE bug

Hi Nick,

Check the version of the one that is displaying the code… it is not optional in any way, it is hardwired into the template so the two installs must be at different revisions…

Regards,

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Sheppard, Nick
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 3:54 PM
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: IE bug

Thanks John

IE v 8.0 and XOT 2.0 (svn r1057)

Screenshot attached…apologies but actually missing header code on my install (which works) not institutional.

Nick

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 26 July 2013 15:43
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: IE bug

Hi Nick,

What version of IE are you using and what Revision of xot (you can find that at /version.txt)?

I tested the player in IE6-10 recently and didn’t identify any problems with the new header code, but this was only added recently so you may not have it yet, if you get the XOT v2 update package on the Community Website then it is in…

For information,  IE conditionals should only be adding some classes to those IE versions that may require CSS patching, but I’ve only added them up until IE9 I think. IE10 has always been rendering the LOs fine as far as I’m aware.

To force IE10 standards mode, the correct DOCTYPE tag is as you specified, <!DOCTYPE html>  (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/hh779632.aspx)

Regards,

John Smith
Learning Technologist
School of Health & Life Sciences
Glasgow Caledonian University

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Sheppard, Nick
Sent: Friday, July 26, 2013 3:12 PM
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Xerte] IE bug

Think I’ve spotted what’s causing my IE bug… [If IE] statements are missing from <!DOCTYPE html>

Any idea why?

Thanks

Nick

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