[opencms-dev] OpenCms 9.0.1: Cms Login

[Martin Hoeller]

Am Mon, 11 Aug 2014 15:16:28 +0200 schrieb <T.Kluge at t-systems.com>:

> 1) There is a browser compatibility check “checkbrowser();“ done by
> jQuery 1.8. Running on IE8 the check mostly reveals browser.version
> == 7.0 instead of 8.0. So OpenCms states, the browser is not
> sufficient. We did not find out why this is the case but it happened
> on 2 of 3 systems. There is a statement by the jQuery staff that IE8
> returns version 7 in compatibility / quirks mode. As a solution we
> removed the browser check.

Just a guess: your browser runs in IE7 compatibility mode?

We also had issues with this (not OpenCMS releated) and it turned out,
that IE switches into IE7 compatibility-mode depending on the zone
(intranet). Despite this, this mode can also be activated by a HTTP
header sent by the server.

hth,
- martin