Yes, it’s another post about Microsoft and its poor implementation of Internet Explorer. This time it’s version 8 and its rendering of lists, and in specific, links within list items. Most humorously, Microsoft’s own documentation (separate issue; about rounded corners) gave me a laugh when it said “Microsoft is committed to providing a browser that accurately supports Web standards.” Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve given up waiting for the day that IE actually supports anything correctly . (more…)

Microsoft and IE are insane.  Yes, we all knew this, but here’s the proof:  IE won’t accept more than 30 style sheets to be loaded via <style> tags within a single page.  Insanity?  Yes.  It’s made even worse by the fact they openly admit this lunacy!  See the relevant support article from MS as proof. (more…)

Note: see this post for up-to-date details.

Essentially, the issue is that Deliverance doesn’t theme (and rightly so) the Kupu editor within Plone and hence any styles applied to normal pages by Deliverance don’t show up.  (more…)

It’s another one of those ‘strange’ problems that has cropped up, but by default in Plone, users who aren’t authenticated aren’t actually able to bring up a pop-up calendar on a date field.

It’s amazing that I haven’t run into this issue before with something like PloneFormGen, where you’d think that a simple Date input field would be pretty common.  Although, I guess it’s the case that even though I’ve used these given forms, I’ve probably never taken much notice of the popup calendar icon and just selected a random date from the drop-down lists.  I suppose entering a random number on they keyboard and hitting tab across the fields 3 times is simpler than going for the mouse.  Who knows. (more…)