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slider captions in IE8

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Started 10 months ago by radugidei
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radugidei
Member

i'm having some trouble with the slider's captions on IE8 :
they work on a few pages, but don't on most others.
i've no clue what could be wrong , as the css seems fine ?

Posted 10 months ago #
Mya

Hi,

Can you take a screenshot or post a link so we can see?

Regards,
Mya

Posted 10 months ago #
radugidei
Member

Hi Mya,

I've since narrowed down what the problem is : it doesn't play well with the WP-Super-Cache plugin (same one you guys use on kriesi.at)

The problem is that if a fresh, non-cached page is visited on IE 8, the subsequent page page (cached) does not display well in other browsers (FF, Chrome, Safari).
Same if it's the other way round, a fresh page visited in Firefox/Chrome/Safari does not display well afterwards in IE.

I've already specified the dynamic-css.php, slideshow.css & custom.css not to be cached, but it didn't solve it.

The problem with the slider is evident in these screenshots :
http://db.tt/CGWsmkSt
http://db.tt/j6oR9sFj
http://db.tt/3iYLYxdD

thanks for taking a look Mya

Posted 10 months ago #
Dude
Dude

Hi!

Did you try to use other cache plugins like W3TC?

Regards,
Peter

Posted 9 months ago #
radugidei
Member

Hi Peter,
I've tried W3TC and WP SuperCache (which seems better) but the problem lies with the way the theme works :

in header.php a CSS class based on the browser is created, resulting in this being written to the HTML page :

<html dir="ltr" lang="en-US" class="firefox firefox3 html_boxed responsive ">

So if you use a caching plugin, it will cache the HTML page, with that declaration already there, no matter the browser. Which means if you visit the site with IE8, you might get the page with styling for firefox or chrome or vice-versa, depending what browser the visitor had when the cache was created.

This causes more issues than i initially pointed out as IE8 generated caches lack webfonts and a lot of other things.
Do you see a way out to fix this ?
I would have thought Kriesi themes are optimised for caching.

Posted 9 months ago #
Dude
Dude

I'll ask Kriesi to look into it. Imho the only way to solve this issue would be to change the browser detection level (js/jquery based browser detection instead of php based browser/user agent detection). Another option would be to exclude dynamic content: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-w3-total-cache-works-with-dynamic-content

Posted 9 months ago #
Kriesi
Key Master

Hi!

Thanks for the notice. Will keep that in mind and check if I can find a better way of setting css classes...

Regards,
Kriesi

Posted 9 months ago #