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[Miles Fidelman <address@concealed>]

Serge,

Serge Aumont wrote:
> Adam Bernstein a écrit :
> > We just discovered from a user's report that our Sympa site is 
> > useless in Internet Explorer 7, which is soon to become an automatic 
> > update for Windows users.  Links and selectors in the login box are 
> > totally non-functional, etc.  And the problem persisted even when I 
> > reverted to a full set of the default Web templates for our version 
> > of Sympa, v5.1.2. But I see that the lists page at sympa.org works 
> > fine, running v5.3a.9.
> >
> > I don't see anything in the release notes about fixing a 
> > compatibility problem with IE 7 -- am I just missing it?  I'm just 
> > wondering if we know what the difference is and it was a deliberate 
> > change, or if it was an accidental side-effect of something totally 
> > unrelated.
> Not accidental : version 5.3 improve the stylesheet and xhtml in order 
> to make it conform to W3C standard. In addition a great work was done 
> to provide better accessibilty for blind persons (this was done by 
> Adrien Brard during training period with us)
This does beg a follow-up question: is it really the case that Sympa is 
(will be) incompatible with IE 7?  I don't use IE myself, but I have to 
assume that various of my list users do. 

Miles Fidelman