[Users] IE 9 problem with checkboxes in layer selector

Thu Sep 29 00:02:27 CEST 2011

Ah, now I see what you mean. You have to upgrade to Ext JS 3.4.0.
Lower Ext JS versions don't support IE9.

Andreas.

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Tim-Hinnerk Heuer
<heuert at landcareresearch.co.nz> wrote:
> Thanks Andreas and Peter. But neither fixed the problem. I had also tried
> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />
> and
> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />
>
> All to the same effect. I also tried
> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
> Which I had in there from the start of this problem.
>
> I checked 'view source', reloading etc, but still have the same problem.
> Isn't it weird? I had put IE=edge in there before to fix another IE-problem.
> There are so many IE hacks in this application now... I wish I could just
> put a page in that says that IE is not supported and people should download
> a proper browser, but that is unfortunately not an option. Politics...
>
> The "good" news is that our company is still using IE 7 and 8 and this
> problem is not so bad yet. But this problem was reported by an IE 9 user, so
> there are people using it.
>
> Any ideas? Because the problem does not happen with the GeoExt examples, so
> I suspect it's somewhere in my code. I might poke around a bit more.
>
> Thanks for any input.
>
> Tim
>
> On 29/09/11 02:24, Andreas Hocevar wrote:
>
> Instead of forcing IE7 mode, what happens if you use the HTML doctype, i.e.
> start your HTML document with
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML>
>
> This is good practice anyway.
>
> Andreas.
>
> On Sep 27, 2011 11:22 PM, <Peter.Jehle at tba.llv.li> wrote:
>> Hi Tim
>> I also have the problem with the checkboxes.
>> I don't have a solution for the problem.
>> I did place a meta-tag in my HTML-File, that tells IE to use IE7 mode.
>> This is not the solution for the problem, bat a quick and dirty hack to
>> make sure that users can check an unceck layers until there's a solution. I
>> hope, the issue will be solved by the community
>> Here's the HTML meta element for the header section
>>
>>
>> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7" />
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Peter
>>
>>
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>> Von: users-bounces at geoext.org [mailto:users-bounces at geoext.org] Im Auftrag
>> von Tim-Hinnerk Heuer
>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 28. September 2011 05:06
>> An: users at geoext.org
>> Betreff: [Users] IE 9 problem with checkboxes in layer selector
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know, we all hate IE, but unfortunately we have to support it here...
>>
>> In IE9 (and only in IE9) I get a very strange problem with the checkboxes
>> and radio buttons in the layer panel:
>> The checkboxes that are not ticked are not tickable and the checkboxes
>> that are ticked are not untickable. Same with radio buttons for base layers,
>> but in that case they are just not tickable but untickable.
>>
>> Now, i thought it would have to do something with my code and events that
>> i attached to the layer nodes, but the stupid developer tools of
>> IE9 didn't even jump into my code at all. GeoExt is fairly black box to me
>> and I'm using the minified version atm which doesn't make debugging easier.
>> If no one had this problem before, i might have to download the debug
>> version and see if i can find the problem.
>>
>> But please do help if you can. Any comments will be appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tim
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