I just noticed that the the Litejazz theme blows up in Internet Explorer 7 when viewing pages that contain maps provided by the gmap module, and on pages that display an embedded Gallery2 integration. Things look fine in Safari (Mac) or Firefox (Mac/Win) on the same pages. I'm running Drupal 6.9 with Litejazz 1.7 and Suckerfish menus enabled. Gmap has been isntalled for a couple of weeks, Gallery2 just went in yesterday. Unfortunately, I didn't notice the problem until after I installed Gallery2, so I can't say for sure that there isn't some connection.

You can see examples at:

http://www.utahnordic.com -- home page, should look fine
http://www.utahnordic.com/skiing/locations/map - example of gmap-related problem
http://www.utahnordic.com/gallery -- example of embedded gallery problem

These pages all appear fine in Firefox.

I'd appreciate any info on how to isolate and troubleshoot these problems. LiteJazz has been a breeze to work with up to now, so this took me by surprise. What I get for not testing in IE sooner!

If there is more useful info that I can provide, let me know.

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dave bruns’s picture

Just a quick follow-up. I disabled gmap on all of the affected ski locations, except one:

http://www.utahnordic.com/skiing/locations/xtest

This node still displays a gmap map using a gmap_simple_map function in the node template. Displays fine in Firefox, breaks suckerfish menus and the rest of the layout in IE 7. The original link above is a views generated map and still doesn't work in IE either.

dave bruns’s picture

Anyone got any ideas or suggestions to troubleshoot or resolve? It would be great to know at least if this is a css problem or a java script issue. I was thinking it would be pretty straightforward to investigate at least this far myself, but the complexity of these pages is daunting. I like the LiteJazz theme and could live with some hacky workarounds for IE if needed. To summarize where I've seen the problem of the suckerfish menu blowing up and displaying vertically rather than horizontally:

- Pages that display a gmap (as described above)
- The main landing page for embedded gallery
- Any page that has a gallery block on it (i.e. random photos, etc)
- Some admin report pages (e.g. dblog)

I don't really care about the report pages, since I don't admin the site using IE, but mention it just for info.

Would the roopletheme forum for Litejazz be a better place to post? If so, let me know - thanks!

PS - just as an aside - when I consider how much time has been wasted collectively by programmers the world over trying to fix IE specific quirks, it's appalling. What is wrong with that company?

ookello’s picture

I am having a similar problem with aboutpeople theme. Theme/layout breaks for some nodes with maps in ie7. works fine in ff3. Havent poked around much though, will try to figure out what causes it to break. Let me know if you have already figured it out, atleast it will point me in the right direction.

Thanks

dave bruns’s picture

Update: I enabled the "Optimize CSS" performance option in Drupal and this solved the problem. It's really just a partial fix, because if I disable that option for any reason the IE display issues will return, but at least it fixes things for now. You might try this if you haven't already.

Witch’s picture

this is the solution kazan. thank you!

vlooivlerke’s picture

After days of pain, sweat and tears.

THANKS FOR THE FIX!

I use gmap, Hierarchical Select that cause this problem on IE 6/7/8

Kisugi Ai’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.