Comments on: Compatibility View on IE 8 (JibberJobber Users)

By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:19:01 +0000

Thanks to Trevor, we apparently fixed this main issue and possibly more… Trevor, email me your address and I’ll drop a LinkedIn for Job Seekers in the mail for you – perhaps you can give it out as a prize to your readers

By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:33:12 +0000

Funny – this was supposed to be the “boring” post of the year… the one that no one would comment on :p Maybe it’s a sign of how spectacular this year is going to be

By: Julie Walraven

Julie Walraven — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:39:21 +0000

Coding is not my world but an observation on spelling is. A marketing blogger told me that he leaves a type in now and then. His posts have been taken word for word without attrition (giving credit or links) to other sites and reblogged with the typo intact… so there might be something to your “wierd” word… Anyone who copies and pastes and does’t edit will be found out…

Blogging done right, as you know, Jason, is about building community. When you steal someone else’s words, I think you miss that… off topic, I know… but the spelling thing started it…

By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:18:33 +0000

@Steven – “wierd” is one of my words… I made it up. It means “weird,” it’s just spelled differently :p

Actually, I always misspell it.

Thanks, fixed it!

By: Steven Rothberg CollegeRecruiter.com

Steven Rothberg CollegeRecruiter.com — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:11:11 +0000

Jason,

Glad to see that you’re so understanding of coding glitches. I spotted a glitch on your page that doesn’t have anything to do with Microsoft. You spelled “weird” incorrectly in this sentence near the top:

When you login the Action Item panel is messed up … it looks wierd… check this out:

By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:02:08 +0000

@Marc – looking at that now, thank you for letting us know…

@Feranm_ie8team – WOW… a real MS person responding … 100 points for Microsoft!!

Just to clarify, there is an image to the right of the URL bar … where you type the URL in … the icon right next to this is the broken icon Feranm is talking about (and then to the right of that is the refresh icon)

Thanks

By: feranm_ie8team

feranm_ie8team — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:56:10 +0000

To enable compatibility mode you can also press the broken page icon next to the refresh button.

Cheers,
Feran
IE Outreach

By: Marc J. Miller

Marc J. Miller — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:55:42 +0000

Thanks Jason.

There is another problem with IE8 that isn’t solved with Compatibility View. Try this:

0. (turn on Compatibility View)
1. Add a log to a job, type some text about what you did, with whom, what you’re going to do, and add a thoughtful subject line.
2. Click the Company tab to associate the company the job is with (so that it shows up under Reporting, otherwise you’ll get a half-a** report)
3. Click Contacts so that you can associate which contact was involved.
4. Click Action Item to add a followup. As soon as you check the box that you want to flag for followup, the window disappears and closes.
5. Scream: “Arghghgh!!”

Start over again. This happens with or without Compatibility View

I’ve switched to Google Chrome. Thanks for your broad browser support.

By: Jason Alba

Jason Alba — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:17:41 +0000

Trevor, thank you for that info – sent it to the dev team and perhaps that will take care of it.

Marc, the bug thing was tongue-in-cheek. Having been a web developer for that last 10 years I know how frustrating it is to have to chase new browsers, new versions, etc… you are always one step behind (or, if you get ahead, they release a new version and make unnecessary changes). So that’s a personal pet peeve of mine, which came out a bit in this post.

To answer your question, we plan on being compatible with all browsers. IE knows whatever they did was far-reaching, so they put it in their main menu, and there are tons of articles on the issue.

What I propose above is a quick, 2 minute fix.

In addition, we’ll look at what Trevor mentioned.

And of course, as we continue development we’ll be as aware as we can of all of the browsers and versions to test against, and do what we can to keep it as clean as possible.

By: Marc J. Miller

Marc J. Miller — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:57:16 +0000

Okay, but “Compatibility View” will fix a web site until it works with IE8. Bug or not, IE8 is the first IE introduced for Windows 7 users, and eventually Compatibility View will be to allow IE9 to display things like IE8 does. I hate to admit it too, but IE8 is not a fad.

Is IE8 compatibility planned?