Last modified: 2014-09-01 13:03:58 UTC
I visited a Flow page in IE8, which is 8% of WMF audience according to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor/Target_browser_matrix (and more elsewhere I think). Screenshot https://saucelabs.com/jobs/2a2680aeb681420381a5652ddf5fdca2/0001screenshot.png?auth=fc4f7362b9615cfceee0744b0f4bc93a There are issues with Flow's local Agora CSS override in IE8: * Gray backgrounds on secondary buttons (they should appear without any button border). * Buttons aren't rounded. * Thank icon goes away on mouseover. * "Start a new topic" text field and textarea both have no blue bar on focus. * Textarea has no placeholder (see http://www.jacklmoore.com/notes/form-placeholder-text/ ,also there's a jquery.placeholder in core, and Matt Flaschen had a placeholder patch for Login forms). * Green [Add topic] button text looks poor. For now this is a Flow bug, but at some point a version of this CSS will migrate to core (bug 54360). https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/93584 may already have relevant LESS workarounds.
The WMF core features team tracks this bug on Mingle card https://mingle.corp.wikimedia.org/projects/flow/cards/413, but people from the community are welcome to contribute here and in Gerrit.
Possibly relevant, a current discussion on WP:VPT, describing odd problems with IE8 that supposedly only started on Nov 2nd. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29#Unable_to_do_anything_through_IE8
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