bdcoder2
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10 years ago Ooops -- my bad -- IE 8 does not support media queries so javascript is the only way? -- right?
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bdcoder2
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10 years ago Ooops -- my bad -- IE 8 does not support media queries so javascript is the only way? -- right?
nathansmith
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10 years ago IE8 receives an entirely separate stylesheet, keeping it at a fixed-width.
You're correct. Because IE8 does not support @media queries, I force it to stay at a "desktop" width.
The Adapt.js demo shows how you could use JS to make IE8 resize appropriately.
But honestly, I wouldn't recommend it. I just take this approach with all sites I do nowadays…
fglueck
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9 years ago A simple FIX is to copy the Desktop defintions to the top of the file, so you have a basic support in IE8 but no resizing if the window will resize.
nathansmith
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9 years ago What I've typically done is feed IE8 CSS file(s), and set a min-width on the <body> so that it can't reach a point where mobile/tablet @media queries would even be needed.
You can see an example of this here…
Screenshot of the "if IE" conditional…
http://cl.ly/image/3X2c3r461836
^ Within that "template_rwd_ie.css" file is the desktop only grid CSS from Unsemantic (and other site-specific things).
Here is a screenshot of the top-level *.scss files that I had set up for Neiman Marcus…
http://cl.ly/image/0q3l173i2Q0n
This allowed us to support not only IE7 and IE8, but also internationalization.
I just tried a test page using IE 8 -- the test page was:
http://unsemantic.com/demo-responsive
Does not work under IE 8 -- is it supposed to? confused as to what combination of includes / javascript / non-javascript is supposed to work on different browsers.
This page does work with IE 8:
http://unsemantic.com/demo-adapt
... but I was looking for a solution that did not involve javascript hacks, etc. -- is this the only way to support IE 8 ???