Styling missing for personabar in IE11

[schotman]

Description of bug

Because of the use of CSS variables the personabar looks pretty bad. I do encourage the use of modern tech, this issue could be easily have been prevented.

Steps to reproduce

open de site as an admin, you'll see

Current behavior

styling issues, most obvious, missing backgrounds

Expected behavior

What we had...

Affected version

version 09.10.00

Affected browser

• Internet Explorer 11
  

[mitchelsellers]

Support for IE 11 is ending, Can you provide examples of what your are seeing

[bdukes]

See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/internet-explorer-11-support-end-dates and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/internet-explorer-11-end-of-support, among others

[bdukes]

That said, I don't think we've officially declared that the DNN Platform doesn't support IE 11. And we're certainly not opposed to PRs that add a better experience for IE 11 (so long as they don't significantly detract from the experience on newer browsers, e.g. due to performance issues)

[schotman]

I will add a pull request with some non-interfering styles

[WillStrohl]

Ah... Mitch and Brian beat me to it. 😃

[Timo-Breumelhof]

That said, I don't think we've officially declared that the DNN Platform doesn't support IE 11. And we're certainly not opposed to PRs that add a better experience for IE 11 (so long as they don't significantly detract from the experience on newer browsers, e.g. due to performance issues)

I hate IE just a much as most of you, but using HTML/CSS not supported by IE would probably be better for a major version. :-)
I have logged issues before where a minor change of (incorrect) HTML was seen as a breaking change.

[schotman]

just added an image to the issue of what you get when using IE11 (a not uncommon scenario when updating a site on a webserver)

[schotman]

Ah... Mitch and Brian beat me to it. 😃

I was kind of reluctant to post this issue because it is obvious that IE11 is old crap, but on a server it is often the only browser, and when you update there e.g. from 9.9 to 9.10 you get a nasty surprise, and you might even think the update went wrong.
We should not want the average IT Joe to think that...

[WillStrohl]

I was kind of reluctant to post this issue because it is obvious that IE11 is old crap, but on a server it is often the only browser

Yes. That's the app you use to download an actual web browser. 😉😆