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

#139470

How is this with IE8 compatibility here, should anyone wait with voting for some week to give members time to update their sites to be compatible with IE8 natively. As the case is, there are some very nice sites in the contest this time, and one argument to vote for one rather then for another would be if the developers already took the efforts to make their site native IE8 compatible, following the web standards or not. I see that some sites are already compatible natively, some not and some even use the plugin or the meta tag to let the browser turn on the compatibility mode automatically and one has no chance to see how the site looks in IE8 native, plus some sites may still show some errors. From the professional standpoint users like to vote, it will be clear that a site being IE8 native has experienced more care and work than a site simply using the plugin or meta tag and it is also not fair competition to use those workarounds where others spend more or less coding time and efforts to make their site truly IE8 compatible.

THANKS!

P.S.: For future contests I would recommend to add the contest rule that only sites will be eligble for the contest that do not use the IE8 compatibility mode plugins or meta tag or even must be native IE8 compatible, this will in any case higher the standards and the niveau of the Joomlart.com Site of the month contest a lot and also makes it necessary for members to be up to date to the web standards to join the contest. Members who follow those requirements will not just eventually even higher the niveau and compliance factors of their sites for their users and also in regards to the competition. So it only can benefit the all-over situation of those member sites in the currently changing internet market.

[imsleepy Friend imsleepyJoin date: January 2009Posts: 451Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 94 Thanked: 45 times in 1 posts]

#297351

Ok that’s too much…. since it is a contest involving JA templates and websites using them, and since supposedly the idea of Joomla and JA is even a novice can build a nice website, if it is not compatible with IE8 because that’s the way the template came, then so be it.

It would be terrible to disqualify sites simply because the site owner is not a coding guru. If everyone could create and debug these templates, there would be no need for a template club!

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

#297356

<em>@imsleepy 119494 wrote:</em><blockquote>Ok that’s too much…. since it is a contest involving JA templates and websites using them, and since supposedly the idea of Joomla and JA is even a novice can build a nice website, if it is not compatible with IE8 because that’s the way the template came, then so be it.

It would be terrible to disqualify sites simply because the site owner is not a coding guru. If everyone could create and debug these templates, there would be no need for a template club!</blockquote>

I don’t know, people just have to do the same like they do with creating their sites, look over some tutorials, ask for help in the forum or submitting a help ticket. So why now saying this is too much when they have to anyway or shall all that “can’t” leave their sites incompatible to IE8 forever, simply using the plugin, and the next plugin, and so on. Other members ask for tutorials how to make a site this and that, why not also with this issue. On the other hand, you can do it this way and automatically those sites who do not comply will soon be on the last places anyway, as the voters will vote for those that comply. It would just help the situation more than you think.

You overestimate the efforts. It is some work but nothing more than anyone can who already worked on customizing a CSS for a JA site. Yet, you will have to learn what to add where, when that is too much, okay.

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