Style Sheets / themes broken in IE

[ingouk]

Hi,
i got a problem with the stylesheets/themes in IE.
IF i load a page it doesnt shoe the stylesheet/theme. Only if i reload the page it shows it. Test several versions of IE. all had problems, works fine on modzilla and firefox.
Any idea why the stylesheets/themes are borken in ie?

www.ibosse.org
Version 0.7-beta3

Cheers
Ingouk

[romulus]

works without a problem here: 6.0.2800.1106/Win2000

[ingouk]

well it doesnt work for me:
http://www.ibosse.org/before_reload.gif
http://www.ibosse.org/after_reload.gif
IE 6.0.2800.1106xpsp2.030422-1633

[romulus]

hint: delete temporary internet files, IE has a big problem with it sometimes

[garvinhicking]

I've heard of similar problems with other Pages as well. It seems to be a windows XP specific problem...

[ozmandious]

I can't seem to isolate it to a single theme or code version. It has been consistent with Win XP though. Perhaps the result of one of the many security updates for IE. I looked at one or two of the Developers sites with IE and the themes seemed to work fine. I like that it works well in Mozilla and Firefox, but unfortunatley they are very much the minority compared to those using Win XP/ IE. I really like Serendipity by far compared to all the other systems I reviewed but if it doesnt work well cross platform thats kind of a problem since most visitors will be using an IE based brower and more than likley XP.

[clairefx]

It seems that I have the same problem on Internet Explorer with Windows XP on my weblog www.clairefx.com. The first time I see the page, the theme is properly applied, but as soon as I navigate through it (or if I go to the admin site), the css is lost and the pages appear on a blank layout with basic styling.

I doubt that this is an issue with IE since I never saw it anywhere else. I think that it might rather be a problem with my installation. Can some of the developpers of Serendipity try to reproduce the error ?

[Guest]

as far as i know, ie recongnizes css correclty only, when it's name .css

[clairefx]

but it works the first time you see the home page, and when you refresh a wrong-shaped page.

I also notied that IE doesn't have any information on the page when it's bugged, and can't display the source (Firefox can).

This seems to be a serious issue.

Any idea ?

[clairefx]

Ok, it seems that the only solution to my problem was to force an additional css. So I copied the CSS from the template directory to the root folder of Serendipity, and precised it in the administration area

Hope this can help someone else...

[Guest]

i have the same bug and in v0.7.1 and v8 Alpha 11

Can you describe exactly that you do to fix that ?

[garvinhicking]

{CSSIEFIX}

We've just committed a patch to try to fix this. You can try it out yourself easily: Open the file serendipity.css.php and find this line:

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header('Content-Type: text/css');

then add this line just before that line:

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header('Cache-Control: no-cache');

If it works or doesn't work for you, please report back.

Thanks
Garvin