Winstrap support for IE8

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The official Bootstrap theme for Microsoft's Modern design language

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Winstrap support for IE8 #131

Closed lawrencecushman closed 7 years ago

lawrencecushman commented 8 years ago

I was looking at the winstrap site on ie8 and things don't look right. Stuff is broken. Colours and backgrounds are off, among other things.

Is there a shim or build step or something that I need to add to my site to make these things ie8 friendly? A few examples of things that I've seen in the css would be the usage of rgba() which isn't supported by ie8 and is ignored, or the use of before:: instead of before: with one : will break glyphs.

wolfy1339 commented 7 years ago

add Autoprefixer to the build step
Not embedding the Unicode characters directly, instead using the codepoint.
Use 1 double colon instead of 2 in ::before and ::after et al
Add hex fallbacks to rgba()

jdalton commented 7 years ago

Hi @lawrencecushman!

IE8 is no longer supported by Microsoft and not supported by Bootstrap.

wolfy1339 commented 7 years ago

IE8 is still supported by Bootstrap v3 which is the version you are using, Bootstrap v4 only supports IE 10+.

jdalton commented 7 years ago

It looks like even in v3 IE8 has a lot of gotchas. Microsoft's support level takes priority on the project and we don't support IE8.