Re: Thoughts on GWT 3.0 re: Java 8 and IE 8/9

Hi Colin,

We are very excited about GWT3, with so many planned enhancements and improvements, can't wait.  

In terms of sencha GXT4 road map for web and tablets, I couldn't resist asking the question on the road map:  

will GXT4 be based on GWT3 with HTML like design with its possible enhancements above?

Using the latest browsers is not an issue for us.

Thanks,

Nas

On Monday, 28 October 2013 20:11:44 UTC, Colin Alworth wrote:

Chak, take a look again at my post - while the meta tag definitely does not work to tell IE8 to behave when in intranet mode, loading the exact same html content and sending the same ua-compat details over a HTTP header *does* solve this.

On Monday, October 28, 2013 3:08:47 PM UTC-5, Chak Lai wrote:

On Monday, October 28, 2013 3:49:19 PM UTC-4, Jens wrote:

In Intranet environment, that META tag can only change IE Document Mode (such as how IE layout the web page), but it cannot change IE Browser Mode (such as IE's JavaScript Engine). It is because the Browser Mode is loaded (Intranet is detected) before IE parse the HTML.

Even with the <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1"> tag, in the Intranet environment IE 9 can display HTML5 sites in appearance only, but using IE 7's JavaScript engine, which does not support HTML5 feature like <canvas>... etc. 

I guess you have to uncheck the checkbox "Display intranet sites in compatibility view" in IE's compatibility view settings.

-- J.

My concern is even if the users are using IE9 or IE10, in Intranet the application can be broken because IE7 Browser Mode is being used, and the users or developers may not aware of what is going on.


P.S: In my opinion, it is great for GWT moving forward, and personally I hate dealing with IE. However, just heads-up for those who are stuck with Intranet + IE.

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