IE 7 Incompatibility – Web browser change resolves many issues

  • Well, today I discovered that the develoopment team for WordPress must have a strong preference for Firefox.

    I generally use IE 7 and have been having many of the problems that others have been having with clean installations of wp 2.5, but I took a look at it in Firefox today and everything that doesn’t work for me using IE works just fine using Firefox.

    I would suggest that other people using IE that are having issues, download firefox and see if things work better for them using it.

    For the development team – whether you are Microsoft fans or not – IE is still the most commonly used browser. It would be nice if you would fix the compatibility issues with it.

    That may well be the FASTEST route to much happier WP 2.5 users, and much better press.

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  • It’s absolutely inexcusable for a product like this not to be thoroughly tested in IE. It’s completely unprofessional to produce code which isn’t cross-compatible.

    That sort of stuff is fine on personal sites, but when it makes it into a product release, it’s the surest sign that you’re dealing with unprofessional web geeks who take browser choice personally, instead of consumate professionals who are interested in producing a product that works for everyone.

    So far WordPress and the WordPress team have been a shining example of online collaboration, but the 2.5 release CLEARLY should never have been marked gold. If 2.6 has the same issues I wouldn’t blame the industry if they jumped on it as a sign that the glory days of wordpress are over.

    I dont know where WP has ever been a shining example of online collaboration. Historically their implementation of cross browser support for GUI – both themes and admin – has been very poor. To this day they have failed conspicuously to publish any usability or acccessibility statements at all.

    if IE were standards compliant there wouldn’t be an issue. Don’t blame WordPress, blame useless IE. They take advantage of the fact that most people don’t know any better. There’s no excuse for them.

    => “Time Breakdown of Modern Web Design”

    that seems fairly accurate. there should be an additional 10% for “begging boss to download firefox.”

    I use IE7 and FF and WordPress 2.5 works fine in both. I am sorry some of you have had problems but almost all are on your side of the fence.

    You can continue to blame IE or WordPress but you are just wasting band-width. Instead, use the time to solve your problems – you’ll be much happier.

    good one haochi haha

    and kmessinger, i blame IE for EVERYTHING. its always the problem. right now, im freezing and hungry…totally IEs fault. the rain forest disappearing….totally IE’s fault. “im sorry officer, i didnt see that IE’S FAULT!”

    Well, it is good to be able to focus on one thing like that. I might try that instead of blaming my wife. Probably much safer.

    A browser that’s advertised as “standards compliant” doesn’t necessarily mean a webpage will show the same as that in another “standards compliant” browser.

    For example, Opera browser is also advertised as standards compliant, however when testing pages I notice differences between how Opera and Firefox deal with certain CSS things.

    I am begginer in WP, and I installed Ver 2.5
    It is working in Firexoks always, but, I saw that problem is on IE with network with proxy server. IE without proxy is OK.

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