5th item in the category not showing in Internet Explorer

ADDISON · #11 05-22-2013, 11:39 AM

Here is a good resource about IE Compatibility:

http://webdesign.about.com/od/internetexplorer/qt/force-compatibility-view-in-ie.htm

Also you can force your customers to install a plugin for IE to solve the issues Microsoft's Team did not.

Google Chrome Frame: http://www.google.com/chromeframe. Of course Microsoft advices not install for security reasons.

But no word from Microsoft about the speed with Google Chrome Frame installed: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9138459/IE8_runs_10_times_faster_with_Google_plug_in

Sooner or later X-Cart should be completely HTML5 + CSS3. doctype will be only html (<!DOCTYPE HTML>)

tgr · #12 05-22-2013, 04:43 PM

Thanks Addison for the advice, I appreciate your time. I did some reading and tried using <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7"> and it did force IE to display the Document Mode in IE7 on one of my computers but when I tested the results (after clearing cache) on two other computers using IE9 I received an error "HTML: X-UA-Compatible Meta tag ('IE=7') ignored because document mode is already finalized" and the document mode was set to IE9 standards. Did a little more reading and can't seem to figure out why it is not working for all 3 computers.

If at all possible, instead of trying to force the document mode back to IE7 is there something I could do to update the Xcart code to make it compatible with the newer versions (IE8, 9, and 10)?

ADDISON · #13 05-23-2013, 12:11 AM

Compatibility in IE is a nightmare. I could try the following testing solution:

1) Find what IE version has the visitor (pass it as a smarty variable, normally it should be a $GLOBAL variable - not sure)

2) Change the meta tag based on the smarty variable according to visitor's IE version (IE7, IE8, IE9).

tgr · #14 05-28-2013, 12:25 PM

I've come up with a solution. It seems that Xcart adds some inline styles to the products-list, one of which is a z-index. It starts with 3 and counts down, so the 5th item in the product list has a z-index: -1 and does not display. I looked for the snippet of code that assigns the z-index in the products-list.tpl and the products.tpl, but was unable to locate. I ended up having to put a larger negative z-index on the body and the page container to make the complete product list visible.



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