Drupal.org unusable in IE7

This is an issue with Drupal.org's theme... Drupal itself shouldn't have an issue, although of course testing it to make sure would be very much appreciated!

Setting this to critical is ridiculous.

I think this is at least a normal bug, IMO it is critical. This may not be AS critical as a "critical" bug for Drupal core, but as far as Drupal.org maintenance bugs go, to have a site pretty much completely borked in a new browser (even if it is IE) is pretty frickin bad, especially for Drupal's image. There have been quite a few infrastructure emails regarding this which means some magnitude greater of those users are coming to the site and getting so turned off they just leave immediately.

But of course if you change it back to minor and tell me I'm wrong, I will rightfully shut up.

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this one is interesting. because it takes longer to load it will flash the content of the page then blank. This reminds me of the FOUC bug in older IE. Something to do with themes that use floats but I don;t remember the details.

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Uh. Ok. In light of the fact that you can actually see NOTHING at all of these crucial places of the slte, I'm bumping priority back to critical. :P

Any CSS gurus around who want to give a shot at fixing this?

So, I realize that Firefox is the predominent browser for tech enthusiasts but reality is that MS is adding IE7 gold to automatic updates now and it will be distributed to a large number of Internet users. Some who actually like it better. Frankly, it does not matter.

Drupal.org does not display in IE7. I do not know what the numbers or breakdown of browser version is for Drupal.org access but it is and will be a dominant browser in the very near future. My site, tech oriented is 52% FF, 40% IE. My non tech site is 23% FF, 69% IE.

Already questions are appearing 'does Drupal display correctly in IE?' Having to explain it is a (not bug) quirk in IE7 css rendering engine is a drain in time and resources.

I am searching the Internet but frankly the Blue Beach theme is beyond my skillset so I can offer my time and willingness to test what ever fixes are attempted.

As an infrastructure issue, a site that will not display in what will soon be a dominent installed browser, it is critical. Whether addressed or not. Whether one's opinion of IE is negative or not. IE7 is a reality

Already we have 2% of this pestilence and it's not yet a mandatory upgrade. Sh!t.

This is a bit more appropriate title.

guys - lets stop arguing about how critical this is ... make a patch, or find someone who will do it for us. i'm sure steven will review a patch. and if not, others can ... since the source code in this case is all emitted html and css, no need for developers to see the theme itself.

From http://www.rickhurst.co.uk/2006/09/01/ie7-plays-peekaboo-to-a-new-level/

The reason for this [no content] appeared to be an even more aggressive version of the so-called peekaboo bug found in IE6, although this site works fine in IE6. By applying a (hack) of a 1% height to a div that contained the missing content, it now appears to be working OK in IE7 RC1. I haven’t filtered this hack out into an IE7 specific stylesheet yet, but will if I spot any undesired side effects. Maybe there’s a better way of fixing this? Time will tell, or maybe a stranger will.

IE 7 needs, just like IE6 a height: 1%; to the #content-wrapper div. Unfortunately IE7 doesn't parse the _height property anymore, we now need something IE7 specific. Note, that this won't restore the header.

Actually, it seems that anything that triggers hasLayout in IE 7 can be applied to the conten wrapper div (eg min-width: 0;)

You can fix all the layout problems on drupal.org with IE7 with some "zoom: 100%;" inside your CSS.

Patch uses non standard & non validating zoom.

We do not validate anyways thanks to wbr . I _know_ there is no alternative to that, I am not complaining, I am stating a fact.

applied by killes. Content is now visible in Drupal.org content area

please apply this patch to bluebeach theme in private cvs repos so that groups and api sites can get the ie7 fix.

I've committed to private cvs and updated groups.d.o.