Twenty Eleven Showcase template fails on IE7 and IE8

[Gecka]

The showcase template is incompatible with IE7 (wrong sticky post thumbnail size and alignement) and IE8 (the sticky posts thumbnails do not appear)

[ocean90]

Some screenshots would be nice.

[peterhol]

ie8 screen shot

[peterhol]

ie8 compat mode screen shot

[peterhol]

I can confirm this bug… at least from here.. see screen shots :)

[peterhol]

Some info regarding IE9's "document modes for IE8/7 testing":

Be careful relying on IE9's document modes for IE8/7 testing. Check out the Additional Information section of the article - ​http://officialtechnews.net/email/ie9%E2%80%99s-document-modes-and-javascript.html. The js engine is not perfectly consistent with that of the earlier versions.

Guess this might explain why testing for IE compatibility is problematic...

[peterhol]

Ok, I got the featured posts to show in ie8, and fixed the positioning problem in ie7. through css. seems the <section>s needed some size definitions, and the positioning for ie7 seems to have been wrong..

[peterhol]

a comment though: I'm running IE8 on a virtual machine on my mac. Don't know if that's the reason, but the script is pretty unstable in ie8... when running through the images, they sometimes show and sometimes they don't (but they might show if you wait a bit, or click the frame where the image should have been..

[lancewillett]

Early 3.6 this needs a refresh and commit.

[obenland]

Updated patch. Tested in IE7/8 mode in Win7.

[lancewillett]

In 23647:

Twenty Eleven: fix showcase template display in IE7 and IE8, props obenland. Fixes #18024.