| cory.ok said:
thats not how that works, there are no specific set of coding tools, there is code and what makes a platform good is being able to run lots of different code, old and new, efficiently. ie9 cant run things that other browsers can so its not as up to date as the other browsers |
As a software developer for web based applications for a world leading defense contractor that forces us to code to IE and secondary FF (for its rather small Linux userbase), I fully understand IE's historical issues and having plenty of non-standard design.
However, IE8 and IE9 were moves to standardization and IE9 specifically brings HTML5 and other technologies to the forefront while neglecting others. This is what my point is regarding why IE9 is having button issues on this site.
Its the same issue to why all mobile browsers (I am 99% sure all) also don't play nicely with this site's buttons. However, in IE9 and those same mobile browsers there is no site I've found elsewhere with the same issues.
This leads the the most obvious conclusion that the tools used to build this sites tools, in particular the thread posting buttons and boxes, are something that is not a standard but more of a tool specific. I'm not sure what that is, but I am sure ioi has some set of codec/jdks/packages/api/whatever that is specific to that UI and it is not compatible with IE9 and from what I've seen any mobile browser.
I'd suggest, replacing those with something more common as that will cause less issues as well as allow mobile use of the forum without having to create mobile specific pages or apps.
Hell, maybe the issue is that this site wrote IE specific code for IE browsers that is no longer relavant with IE9 as its moved on to the standards and its being recognized incorrectly. Meaning, that code will need to differentiate IE9 from older IE browsers and in IE9's case use the standard set similar to FF/Opera etc. idk, I haven't seen the source, just a thought.
