[Phpmyadmin-devel] Continue support for IE6?

[Lori Lee]

Nice, I did not know that jQuery had a tooltip. I can change the current
tooltips to the jQuery one.

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:20 AM, Michael Keck <sfnet at michaelkeck.de> wrote:

>  Hi Lori,
> Hi Developers,
>
> Am 03.08.2010 23:14, schrieb Lori Lee:
> > I encountered a bug in IE6 where the z-index of <select> elements is
> > always higher than of other elements, regardless of their z-index,
> > i.e. <select> elements always appear on top of everything else. This
> > is a problem for PMA because the tooltip feature becomes blocked and
> > you can't read the text inside:
> >
> > http://lorilee1.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/ie_edit-e1280869355294.png
> > http://lorilee1.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/ie_export-e1280869331806.png
> >
> > The fix for this is to position an iframe directly on top of every
> > single <select> element to just cover it, though it's really just an
> > hack.
>
> For this, there's a solution by jQuery Tooltip. I mean, moving tooltips
> to the jQuery would resolve these problems.
>
> > I'm wondering if it's even necessary to continue supporting IE6.
> > (Google stopped supporting it for YouTube...)
>
> Googles YouTube is still usable with IE6 for basic functions.
> I'm thinking the PMA basic functions should be usable with the (terrible
> old) IE6, because on some systems the IE6 is the
> default browser. All new (and sometimes complicated) functions must not
> be usable with the IE6, but it would be nice
> to tell those peoples to update their browser and/or system.
>
> Regards
> Michael
>
>
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Thanks,
Lori
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