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2006 Aug 21
Comment by Jonadab
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Comment edited by the author, 2006 Aug 22.

With regard to inserting dynamically-retrieved content, IE7 needs to be treated the same as IE6, i.e., styles are not re-applied when the class transfers.

As for other browsers, anything Gecko-based (Netscape, Flock, SeaMonkey, K-Meleon, Camino, Epiphany, ...) should all work the same as Firefox, and I wouldn't worry about testing them all individually.

Theoretically Safari should work the same as Konqueror, but Safari is worth testing separately, if someone has access to a Mac.

Minor or specialty browsers, such as Lynx, will probably not work, and there isn't much to be done about that without doing a lot of sniffing and serving out legacy versions of everything with no client-side scripting. If this were the library's main website that would probably be worth doing, but for a discussion forum perhaps not.

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2006 Aug 25
Comment by Nathan (Staff)
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Comment edited by the author, 2009 Feb 26.

As it turns out, the "Read More" links will be plain vanilla links for MSIE as well as most robots (e.g., search-engine indexers). This at least allows the content to be accessed. Additionally, you can now force _all_ of the links to be plain old links via a setting in your preferences, so that the forum is useable (albeit somewhat less convenient and a little rough around the edges in places) without Javascript.

Update: MSIE became a first-class citizen sometime in late 2006 or early 2007.

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