Problems with PF3 M4 on IE7

[vineet]

i just migrated to M4 . But i have noticed some problems while using PF M4 on IE7 .

1. The menubar renders vertically instead of horizontally . it was working fine on PF M3 . and it works fine with IE8 .

2 . Images are not visible on the pagination buttons like next,previous etc . This also happens with IE7 .

I have downloaded the themes 1.0.2 from repository . IF i am not mistaken primefaces does support IE7 .

Any suggestions will be really helpful .

Thanks in advance .

[vineet]

The same problem can be recreated with lab showcase .

It seems as the version is moving up it is getting less compatible with even IE7 . Can something be done about this?

[kukeltje]

It would be a real problem if it would be less compatible with IE8 or 9 or FF6, so I'd not formulate it like 'even with IE7'. That does not mean best effort should be put into it to make it work with IE7 (if you have css things you can fix/find please do)

[vineet]

yes true .But the things that were working with older releases stopped working suddenly so it becomes little difficult . For menu which is getting displayed vertically instead of being horizontal what can be done in css ? The same goes with the images not getting displayed on pagination bar .

I really appreciate the work on primefaces . I was just trying to find out if these are known issues .

[troguen]

Hi vineet,
Are you find any solution? or one way for fix this problem?

[vineet]

I didnt yet . for now i switched back to M3 . But i really need to see if this can work .

[burferd]

It is not an incompatibility issue with IE7. I see the same menuBar problem in IE9 and IE9 operating in IE8 mode.

It appears to be a PrimeFaces issue and one of the "workarounds" was to use a toolbar with menuButtons.
It is still an issue in PF 3.0-RC1 snapshot (11/17/2011 version).

[jim@jimtough.com]

Try the workaround in this post to solve the menubar problem:
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15184&p=48278#p48278

I'm stuck with IE7 also because that is the browser used in my customer's corporate environment. I have also noticed that IE7 compatability seems to be getting worse with the newer releases. Since I'm not in a situation where "just switch to a newer browser" is a viable option, I'm trying to find workarounds wherever I can.

[vineet]

Same here . we also need to support compatibility for IE7 . So m little stuck as well finding the solution.

[jasdanh]

I'm experiencing the same problem. I eventually got IE9 to work by setting this in the header
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9" />

However, some weird issues with menus. So when I modify the css file in anyway or modify the reference to it, IE9 works (WEIRD). But forget about IE8/7 only a few things work.
Primefaces M3 worked fine for all versions. I think it has some of the settings in css in primeface core. Just my 2 cents.

But I have been struggling with this and my customers are having problems with IE8 and I can't tell them to upgrade to IE9.