On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Hyrum K. Wright <hyrum_wri...@mail.utexas.edu> wrote: > > On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:22 PM, C. Michael Pilato wrote: > >> Johan Corveleyn wrote: >>> A small nit on the new website: on IE 7, the left navigation bar seems >>> slightly mis-indented. See screenshot in attachment. It looks like >>> it's indented too much, making it appear to be right aligned. On IE 8 >>> it shows up correctly though (meaning it seems ok to me, it's the same >>> as in FF). >> >> Screenshot seems to have gone missing, but thanks for the report. I'll look >> into this when I get a free moment. (I seem to recall that the same problem >> occurs in IE6, which I have access to.) > > *sigh* > > I really hope we aren't jumping through additional hoops to get IE6 to work. > I can understand > IE7, and if there's a problem there it's worth looking into, but supporting > the piece of brain > damage that is IE6 is just asking for nightmares. > Please note that most browser doesn't like XHTML files with mime-type="text/html", instead of "application/xhtml+xml". They interpret them as _invalid_ HTML. [1,2]
Recommendation is to use HTML 4.01, which I suggest. In our experience this simple change resolves a lot IE rendering problems. [1] http://webkit.org/blog/68/understanding-html-xml-and-xhtml/ [2] http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml -- Ivan Zhakov VisualSVN Team
