Bug#421826: [pkg-horde] Bug#421826: annoying HTML bug in mailbox header on Opera and IE7

Jamie ffolliott jamieff at inline.net
Tue May 1 21:17:24 UTC 2007


> > For the large number of IE 
> clients, the 
> > mailbox interface doesn't show me any part of the header 
> bar, where it 
> > is supposed to say:
> > 
> > "Inbox (xxx), links for: refresh, apply filters, & search; 
> page 1 of 
> > X, 1 to 20 of XXX messages"
> > 
> > It's invisible.  Well without that, IMP's clearly missing some key 
> > functionality for webmail.
> 
> I see.
> 
> > And really thie fix is so trivial and harmless, it's a 
> shame this app 
> > wasn't tested in IE7 before debian's release.
> 
> I tend to agree. However I package the upstream version and I 
> really thought that the stable version was tested with IE. Is 
> it equally bad in IE6?

In IE6 it's not an issue.  It's a rendering issue in IE7 and Opera.

However anyone using a current version of windows will automatically get IE7
in windows updates, and that's quite a large audience.  So IE6 for the most
part means the older Win2000 and prior.
 
> > Why not just get it fixed?
> 
> I can fix it trivially for unstable, however I'm not the one 
> that decides what is included in a point release for stable. 
> I'll see if I can convince the stable release managers that 
> this bug is important enough.

Ok, appreciated.





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