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bokmann / font-awesome-rails

the font-awesome font bundled as an asset for the rails asset pipeline
http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/
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Icons not working in Internet Explorer 8 #143

Closed Corb3nik closed 9 years ago

Corb3nik commented 9 years ago

Hey guys,

I can't get the icons to work on IE8. When I check developer tools, the CSS file that is generated contains [?] boxes instead of the icons/hex values.

screen shot 2015-07-14 at 2 55 10 pm

EDIT: Just tried the your github website and I am getting similar results : screen shot 2015-07-14 at 2 58 41 pm

I am using Internet Explorer 8 Version 8.0.7601 on Windows 7

Do you guys support this browser?

rmm5t commented 9 years ago

I can't get the icons to work on IE8.

Microsoft is officially ending support for IE8 in 6 months (Jan 2016). I'd argue that anyone else continuing to support IE8 in the meantime is wasting their time down the rabbit hole. https://www.gartner.com/doc/2993017/microsoft-plans-end-support-windows https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle?p1=13418

Just tried the your github website and I am getting similar results

That's now our site. We're just a asset gem on top of the core FontAwesome. If you want to get IE8 support on Windows 7, your best bet is to report the issue to them, but I would first search their issues, because I'd guess that they've already addressed their support strategy for IE8.

However, with all that said, does this suggested workaround help? https://thedesignspace.net/2014/01/19/ie8-and-fontawesome-fontface/#.VaV0NxNVhBc