Another IE (8 and less, I believe) gotcha is it only processes 4095 rules
in a CSS file; you have to break large files into multiple chunks. More on
this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9906794/internet-explorers-css-rules-limits

Best,
Eric Phetteplace
Emerging Technologies Librarian
Chesapeake College
Wye Mills, MD


On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Josh Wilson <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> In looking quickly at your "not working in IE" example, it looks to me like
> it does work in IE9 but not 8. So perhaps it works like you think it does,
> only you're not seeing it because of IE's idiosyncrasies? Hope I'm
> correctly understanding your question.
>
> A few common IE gotchas, if you haven't tried these already or aren't
> accustomed to messing with IE much (F12 for developer tools - actually lots
> of good stuff here for checking the DOM, stylesheets, network):
>
> *Be sure that IE is pretending to be the browser you think it is - check
> the browser mode and document mode listed in the developer tools menu. IE
> likes to switch modes for no good reason.
> *IE can also be very aggressive about caching. There are cache settings you
> can change in the developer tools but I find that they don't always work. A
> full cache clear is sometimes what it takes to get the latest CSS update.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Ken Irwin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I've been working on integrating some Bootstrap into our library website,
> > and I've stumbled on weird thing that I can't explain:
> >
> > I'm using the basic bootstrap templates, straight out of the box with no
> > customization, and the CSS feature that compresses the header on narrow
> > screens doesn't work on IE(v9) on my library web server. But exactly the
> > same code on my personal server works just fine. Both sets of code work
> > fine in Chrome and Firefox. Both servers are some mix of Linux+Apache.
> >
> > Why would the same css work on one server but not another?
> >
> > I ran Fiddler to be sure that the css was actually being called, and it
> is.
> >
> > I wonder if others will get the same results.
> >
> > Working in IE:
> > Out of the box "hero" template:
> > http://alltrees.org/ken/bootstrap/docs/examples/hero.html
> > Just the responsive header (no JS, just relies on 2 css files):
> > http://www.alltrees.org/ken/bootstrap/docs/examples/top-nojs.html
> >
> > Not working on IE:
> > http://www6b.wittenberg.edu/lib/test/bootstrap/docs/examples/hero.html
> >
> http://www6b.wittenberg.edu/lib/test/bootstrap/docs/examples/top-nojs.html
> >
> > Any ideas? I'm mystified...
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ken
> >
>