Wiki problem in Internet Explorer

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

lør, 20.08.2005 kl. 01.24 skrev Patrick Barnes:
> While trying to get the FrontPage of the wiki looking a little better, I
> decided to give it a try in Internet Explorer.  What I saw I didn't
> like.  At first, I thought I had done something that IE didn't like, but
> after investigation (including a bunch of trivial changes) I have
> determined that the problem more likely lies in the CSS for the default
> theme.
> 
> The problem in IE is that some objects such as tables and textareas have
> a large amount of whitespace above them.  I haven't checked many
> versions of Internet Explorer, but the most recent versions are affected.
> 
> I would like to advise that the CSS for rightsidebarsmaller (and perhaps
> others) needs to be checked into.  Although most of the visits to
> fedoraproject.org are probably from Linux viewers, we are also trying to
> show Windows users to the light.  We will have visitors using Internet
> Explorer, and should try to make sure things look right.
> 
> Another option would be to set the default theme to sinorca4moin, which
> does not exhibit the problem.
> 
> -- 
> Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes
> nman64 at n-man.com
> 
> www.n-man.com

A better solution migth be to use the "ie conditional comment" (a
acctually *usefull* proprietary function :) ) in order to serve IE
another CSS file than for standards-compliant browsers.

---Kyrre