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[billyk Friend billykJoin date: January 2006Posts: 172Downloads:0Uploads:6 Thanks: 28 Thanked: 17 times in 1 posts]

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Hello,

I am hoping to refer a friend to become a JoomlArt customer, but needed to ask a few questions first. I know management is busy, so I may not receive a reply, but here goes…

I had my friend who’s looking to join a template club, check out some of my sites that were made using JoomlArt templates. Initially they were very impressed, however, on some sites the pages looked very different, and even BAD. One of them was the Canus Goat’s Milk website I just won a contest for… They are (unfortunately PC users brainwashed into thinking they are stuck using Internet Exploder) using Internet Exploder 8 and the Canus site (and several others I might mention) looks really messed up.

My question to the owners/developers at JA is WHY, if the rest of the world (98% – yes, 98%!!!) uses MS web products, shouldn’t the developers be developing templates that are IE compliant? It’s got me looking at all my sites made with JA templates, and I have to say…I really not thrilled to have to redesign them all in the name of the omnipotent Internet Exploder web browser. What a joke!

Please forgive me if this has been addressed elsewhere, and drop me a link to the article. I searched but after 4 pages didn’t find what I was looking for.

Regards and best wishes,
billyk

[hanifahmed Friend hanifahmedJoin date: August 2008Posts: 576Downloads:0Uploads:5 Thanks: 67 Thanked: 141 times in 110 posts]

#298216

Hi Billy

All the templates available at JA are IE compliant but only upto IE7.

Unfortunately, IE8 is made different to IE7 and its predecessors therefore pages will appear different to that of IE7 and FF and so on.

In the past, when IE7 and so on was released, JA always had to create updates for their templates to make them compatible with the new systems that where being released – and this process is still being carried out by JA on all of their templates.

Updates have always been available from JA as part of their service agreement.

And upgrading to IE8 is probably the most stupidest thing you could’ve done at this time. You are the Guinea Pigs of Microsoft.
1st wave users (those who get it STRAIGTAWAY) will be subject to problems, bugs, issues that Microsoft has yet to discover and fix – so if you really want to view websites how the majority of the world really is viewing it, stick to IE7 for now. Or indeed change to Firefox.

The JA team needs to create 60+ updates for a product that was just realsed, so excuse me for being harsh – but give the people some time!

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[billyk Friend billykJoin date: January 2006Posts: 172Downloads:0Uploads:6 Thanks: 28 Thanked: 17 times in 1 posts]

#298231

OK, so I shouldn’t be worried, and go ahead and refer my friend. Certainly, the support of the admins and other users far outweighs any other template club I belong to.

Thanks for your input!

[mj1256 Friend mj1256Join date: June 2007Posts: 1473Downloads:10Uploads:35 Thanks: 84 Thanked: 225 times in 118 posts]

#298236

You can fix your sites for now with this simple IE8 compatibility plugin
http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/style-&-design/accessibility/7623/details

[wooohanetworks Friend wooohanetworksJoin date: September 2008Posts: 1239Downloads:0Uploads:2 Thanks: 148 Thanked: 138 times in 41 posts]

#298258

Give the world a plugin that really fixes the sites and you will be rich soon! This plugin turns on the compatibilty mode automatically and makes it impossible for people to use IE8 as it should be. The button for compat mode on/off is not more available, so any serious designer will have a big laugh on the people who use those. BTW, any IE7 errors most of those sites will have, as the people making those praise the FireFox, still will be seen with this plugin on…Maybe it is time for a “Make my IE to FF” plugin, so that people will get what they want.

Like I said, give the world a tool that works over all your template codes and makes those IE8 compliant and you may be a rich man for some time.

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