IE8 - Problem with Doc Type

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IE8 - Problem with Doc Type

Poster: Adric
Dated: Thursday March 13 2008 - 5:32:17 GMT

Ok, been using the menu for a while, however, as of IE8 - Beta 1, the menu no longer works at all if you have set a dov type... ex.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

this causes the menu to become stretched in some cases, and for any sub menus to open up approx 1999px below the lowest element on the page.

Any help would be greatly appreceated as I have loved this menu system, but It has died in IE8.

http://www.midnightcartel.com/

Re: IE8 - Problem with Doc Type

Poster: John
Dated: Thursday March 13 2008 - 14:21:50 GMT

Sorry, but we can't get into trying to solve problems with beta software. We just don't have the time, and quite frankly, it's not worth the effort. Beta software is obviously going to change until final release. Any changes we might make to the menu code just to fix a beta problem could well be wiped out when the final is released.

Given that, once IE8 is final, if the problem still exists we'll certainly take a look at it.

Re: IE8 - Problem with Doc Type

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Thursday March 13 2008 - 15:27:08 GMT

Hi,

John is so right. We could try and solve something and by the time we posted the answer the browser could be change and have fixed the issue. One thing about your page you need to read the info on placing a menu in a div. If you fix how you did that, maybe that would fix the problem. But, that is not an IE8 issue. I'm surprised you have not had trouble with other browsers before now.

http://support.milonic.com/beginners/ta ... /index.htm
http://www.milonic.com/tablemenu.php

Ruth

Re: IE8 - Problem with Doc Type

Poster: Adric
Dated: Thursday March 13 2008 - 15:35:38 GMT

Im actualy in the process of redoing the layout, and in the new version i tried the div placement as stated in the docs you mentioned. It didn't work. I quite understand your position on this, and will hope that it will be fixed by the time ie8 goes gold. They have quite a few things to fix in it. If it isn't better, i will let you guys know. Thanks again

Re: IE8 - Problem with Doc Type

Poster: Andy
Dated: Thursday March 13 2008 - 15:44:57 GMT

I think the only thing we will look at is the doc type issue.

This is something that Microsoft will keep in the final release (in that it uses a Doc Type by default even if one hasn't been specified) and this is something we need to look into anyway.

Might also be good if we can get menu version 6 ready for IE8 release.

Re: IE8 - Problem with Doc Type

Poster: Ruth
Dated: Thursday March 13 2008 - 19:19:43 GMT

Hi,

As to the menu in the div, the problem is I didn't see buildAfterLoad=true; in the menu_data.js file that I got from your site. You put the calls in the div, but you have to also have that buildAfterLoad=true; up at the top of the data file by the subOffsetLeft section. If you don't use that, then you need to use the old method of splitting the files with only the main menu being called in the div.

Again, I'm not saying that has anything to do with the doc type problem. Andy is going to look at that, but the other issue can affect different browsers.

Ruth

Re: IE8 - Problem with Doc Type

Poster: Adric
Dated: Sunday March 16 2008 - 3:10:21 GMT

i thought this had been fixed, however it was just a compatability setting mix up...