We have come across a problem where our responsive web sites are not displaying right on ie8.
Without writing an entirely separate css just for that browser is there an easy fix?
Does IE8 run responsive web sites?
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Does IE8 run responsive web sites?
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Re: Does IE8 run responsive web sites?
It's a six year old browser. It gets most things wrong. You can check specific features here: http://caniuse.com/
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Re: Does IE8 run responsive web sites?
As I thought. Thanks. Users is on XP, hence its knackered on there.
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Re: Does IE8 run responsive web sites?
You can get reasonable results if you use a normalize CSS before your CSS. I find that CSS is less a problem that Javascript (e.g. no console, poor json support, etc.).
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Re: Does IE8 run responsive web sites?
IE 1.0 runs responsive websites - it's all a matter of how complex you get.
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
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Re: Does IE8 run responsive web sites?
That's interesting.
We do it for Desktop and Mobile.
We do it for Desktop and Mobile.
But on IE8 it's utterly ignoring it. It seems to try the first set first, and ignore the second, thus making a web site looks really tiny on screen.@media screen and (max-width: 767px)
{
}
@media screen and (min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 3000px)
{
}
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Re: Does IE8 run responsive web sites?
The link I posted above shows that IE8 does not support media queries. Something like Respond.js may be helpful.