[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #22044: Twenty Twelve: Support Media Queries on IE7/8 (don't use mobile menu)

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#22044: Twenty Twelve: Support Media Queries on IE7/8 (don't use mobile menu)
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 Reporter:  bpetty         |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)   |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  3.5
Component:  Bundled Theme  |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch      |
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Comment (by lancewillett):

 There are many problems with this Trac ticket:

 1. It's a duplicate. See notes from Obenland above.
 2. The IE8 navigation menu is not broken. It's just different than what
 modern browsers display.
 http://dowebsitesneedtolookexactlythesameineverybrowser.com/
 3. The IE8 navigation menu behavior is not a mistake or oversight. We, the
 team tasked with creating this theme, decided to give IE7 and IE8 the
 basic view of the theme, equivalent of the mobile view. We agonized,
 tested, discussed in IRC and Trac, and went with the best pragmatic
 approach to keep the theme lean and clean.
 3. It's not accurate to state that IE8 is in use on 30% of websites — that
 kind of blanket statement is hard to back up with hard stats. It depends
 on your site, your audience. If you check the global numbers
 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser_usage) you'll see it varies greatly
 — but IE itself could be around 30% with and IE8 and 7 are a smaller
 percentage of that.
 4. I doubt that we will see massive complaints. This theme has been live
 on !WordPress.com for over a month, and is now active on hundreds of
 thousands of sites. Smooth sailing there. Again, it depends on your exact
 audience and site.
 5. This theme is usable and ready for IE users. We tested it extensively
 in IE versions as part of the theme breaking — especially at WCSF 2012 and
 after it hit WP.com and Extend. That's not the same as saying it's pixel
 perfect in older IEs, see number 2 above.

 That said, if we can focus on facts and a pragmatic approach I'm open to
 re-looking at the best and most logical solution to making the navigation
 work more like modern browsers.

 Whether that's loading a JS script to enable media query support in IE7
 and IE8 or a CSS hack on the <code>.ie</code> selectors we have in place.

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