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[arucardx Friend arucardxJoin date: July 2010Posts: 346Downloads:0Uploads:10 Thanks: 21 Thanked: 138 times in 104 posts]

#179564

I have look around a few wall sites and tested that Ja Wall display fine in IE8 and 9. However the top menu & jquery completely breaks in IE7. (Just turn on compatibility mode in IE9 or 8 if you don’t have IE7 and you will see the problem)

It definably breaks in IE6 as well but I think IE6 should no longer be supported or used by anyone. IE7 however still have a fairly decent 10% or so share in the browser market. While it may be possible to ask someone to upgrade their browser, it’s generally hard to a new site whose trying to promote itself to tell it’s visitors that “Sorry, it doesn’t work in IE7. Please upgrade to IE8”. I think the general reaction to that is always to say “screw you” then close the site and never visit it again.

Still the message that the site works best in IE8 and above only needs to be spread across to the visitor at some point. Normally, we could just put that text in the footer along with the credits, however JA Wall doesn’t have a footer. Putting a pop up on load doesn’t quite work well as well since it will cause the pop up to appear on every single page or until the cookie expires(if user accidentally close it too fast before reading).

So I’m curious, is there any measures that some of you fellow wallers are using to inform ppl that they need to upgrade their browser? I was thinking of putting a small footer note in the nav sidebar that states the recommended browser versions, however I have no idea how to do that. Do share if you have any thoughts.

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#462867

I’m sorry, but Joomlart no longer supports IE7 issues.
http://www.joomlart.com/blog/news-updates/joomlart-to-stops-ie7-support-wef-from-1st-august-2012

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1. arucardx

[arucardx Friend arucardxJoin date: July 2010Posts: 346Downloads:0Uploads:10 Thanks: 21 Thanked: 138 times in 104 posts]

#462878

Ah no more IE7. Ok, so if say, I would like to put a footer note at the very bottom of the sidebar just to inform ppl of the supported browser versions since JA Wall doesn’t really have a footer with infinity scroll, how can I do that?

I’m very bad with module… creating new modules and choosing a position is like an alien language to me.

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#463052

Hi Arucardx
Please use http://yourdomain/?tp=1 to get more modules position on this template.

Regards,
<em>@arucardx 332650 wrote:</em><blockquote>Ah no more IE7. Ok, so if say, I would like to put a footer note at the very bottom of the sidebar just to inform ppl of the supported browser versions since JA Wall doesn’t really have a footer with infinity scroll, how can I do that?

I’m very bad with module… creating new modules and choosing a position is like an alien language to me.</blockquote>

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#463085

There’s only 1 position in the sidebar and that’s sidebar… which is why I have no idea how to add a module to the bottom of the sidebar or create a new module position there. You can see in the demo. http://www.joomlart.com/demo/#joomla25-templates.joomlart.com/ja_wall?tp=1

There is no place to add a footer note unless I want to leave it hanging in the middle of the sidebar.

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#463087

<em>@arucardx 332916 wrote:</em><blockquote>There’s only 1 position in the sidebar and that’s sidebar… which is why I have no idea how to add a module to the bottom of the sidebar or create a new module position there. You can see in the demo. http://www.joomlart.com/demo/#joomla25-templates.joomlart.com/ja_wall?tp=1

There is no place to add a footer note unless I want to leave it hanging in the middle of the sidebar.</blockquote>

Depends on how many articles you have but (scrolling right to the bottom of them) you could always make a custom html module and set it to position ‘debug’.

Or you can use a plugin like the one for European cookies and then hack it to read/display what you want.

🙂

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#463089

Try this plugin – http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/browsers-a-web-standards/20111

and it’s free!! 🙂

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1. arucardx

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#463090

Debug won’t work because it will keep disappearing behind the article and it keeps disappearing every now and then when scrolling down due to infinity scroll.

That plugin used by European Cookies is interesting though, I was thinking of using something like that for important site announcements but can’t find a plugin that does that for Joomla 2.5, only found 1 for Joomla 1.7 and that hangs the entire site when enabled =(

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#463091

<em>@arucardx 332921 wrote:</em><blockquote>Debug won’t work because it will keep disappearing behind the article and it keeps disappearing every now and then when scrolling down due to infinity scroll.

That plugin used by European Cookies is interesting though, I was thinking of using something like that for important site announcements but can’t find a plugin that does that for Joomla 2.5, only found 1 for Joomla 1.7 and that hangs the entire site when enabled =(</blockquote>
Just posted up a link to a 2.5 plugin that seems to be pretty good!

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#463092

<em>@swissa 332920 wrote:</em><blockquote>Try this plugin – http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/site-management/browsers-a-web-standards/20111

and it’s free!! :)</blockquote>

That’s an excellent choice! I didn’t notice that plugin. Just took a look at the demo and thought it is kinda intrusive like a virus message, but then I suddenly realize I only need to show the pop up to ppl using unsupported browsers. So ya that works =D Thanks for the great suggestion!

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