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FS#440 - Browser compatibility

Attached to Project: Mambo BTS
Opened by Maria Müller (orangetree1) - Monday, 24 November 2008, 02:46 GMT-4
Last edited by Andres Felipe Vargas valencia (andphe) - Sunday, 09 August 2009, 19:09 GMT-4
Task Type Enhancement
Category Architecture
Status Unconfirmed
Assigned To No-one
Operating System All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 4.6.5
Due in Version 4.7
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Dear developers,

I would be gread, if SERVERAL stylesheets for one theme (for browser compatibility e.g. IE6.css, IE7.css) could be edited online. Since this ist a major problem when building websites because even Firefox 3.0.4. and IE7 interpret stylesheets differently, I´ve put the task as “high”. Hint: Please check wordpress as a model!

Thank you!

Orangetree

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Comment by Lynne Pope (Elpie) - Monday, 24 November 2008, 06:44 GMT-4

This is already possible in Mambo as long as the template has been properly formed and the server allows file editing.

Comment by Maria Müller (orangetree1) - Monday, 24 November 2008, 07:14 GMT-4

Hello Elpie,

My server allows file editing AND my template has been properly formend. I can only online-edit ONE css-file belonging to my template: template_css.css. The other css-files (for IE7 and IE6) which are uploaded to the correct directory are not shown in the mambo-backend! I would be glad if you could advise me how to make that work.

Tia orangetree

Comment by Lynne Pope (Elpie) - Monday, 24 November 2008, 08:56 GMT-4

Ah, my mistake - I hacked Mambo to allow this.

There is, however, another way of handling this and it works really well. Install Mamboxplorer (Joomlaxplorer may work as well) and you can edit your files from the backend without any problems. Doing it this way also means you don't have to worry about what your file names are.

The WordPress model cannot work with Mambo. WordPress allows access from the admin login to every single file in the themes directory, and the same functions also permit editing of the plugins. WP themes are not installed really, they are simply recognised by the comments in style.css. Mambo works a completely different way and templates are installed, just like any other Mambo extensions.

In future versions of Mambo it is likely that all CSS files within a CSS directory will be editable but due to the current architecture that is not likely to happen before Mambo 5.

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