Make editor work in IE8

[OscarGodson]

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[OscarGodson]

Holy shit. This is actually going to finally happen 6 months later. It's getting closer. Prepare for IE8 support! WHEE

[OscarGodson]

Closer. If you pull the feature/ticket-4 branch youll see IE8 "works" now. Its janky, but wont crash anything and no more JS errors. Here's whats left:

1. The editor is misplaced

2. New lines are lost or wrong upon refreshing.

3. You can't see the preview and fullscreen buttons.

4. Keyboard shortcuts arent working at all.

[nathancarnes]

@OscarGodson: started working on this, and have a few questions.

Editor misplacement -- are you seeing that in the docs example? I'm not able to repro in IE8.

Buttons -- dug into this, and it looks like a JS event issue, not a CSS issue. Regardless of focus/hover state, #epiceditor-utilbar is set to display: none; using an inline style (so, presumably using .hide(), although I haven't dug into the JS yet. I'm able to reproduce this in IE9 also.

If you manually remove that style, the buttons show correctly in both 8 and 9 for me.

[OscarGodson]

Yes. I'm seeing this in the docs. I didn't make a new test page. Maybe it's just something on the docs' CSS and that's why I haven't been able to figure it out?

If you get an object required error on the utility bar see my fixes for that issue in IE above. But basically a one line fix at the top of the event handler:

function someEventHandler () {
  // Need this for IE:
  e = e || self.iframeElement.contentWindow;

  // codez...
}

[OscarGodson]

@nathancarnes Did you ever make any progress on anything?

[nathancarnes]

@OscarGodson -- haven't had time to dig into the JS yet on the button
issue, and I'm not able to reproduce the editor positioning issue, so I'm
kind of at a standstill right now.

[OscarGodson]

So when you open the site in IE8 the editor isn't funky? Are you checking in native IE8 or virtual IE8 from IE9+?

[nathancarnes]

Right, the buttons don't work, but the placement issue isn't there.

Virtual IE8 from 9.

[OscarGodson]

I wonder if that's why. I'm using native IE8. UGH. I HATE IE.

[nathancarnes]

If I remember correctly, the virtual IE8 in newer version is a
Frankenstein's monster of 8's CSS rendering and 9/10's JS engine.

So that's fun.

[OscarGodson]

Fixed the positioning issue in IE8. Was happening even on a page with no CSS. It was a simple fix tho. See f3d5c8c

[OscarGodson]

Unless I get a lot of people asking for this, I'm going to close this. IE8 is already barely being used anymore.