IE 8 help please!

avman · July 16, 2014

In an effort to make the white text in my captions more visible, I went to the entire page customize portion of my site (www.smugmug.avman.com or tomdphotos.com) today and entered a background color of black and used the alpha channel setting of 15% so my background image would not be completely hidden. Works great in FF. Even my copy of IE 10 64bit works great. Haven't tried any other browsers on my computer. My wife's computer is using Win XP therefore only has IE 8 (her preferred). When I went to look at my site on her computer, the background hides the background image. My question(s), is code available to display the background image with the black background at 15%? I also saw a "thumbs up" image under my photos in IE 10 on my computer, I think where the old comment button used to be. Did not see that on FF. Can anyone explain that to me? Thank you in advance for the help...
Tom

Hikin' Mike · July 16, 2014

Did you add this to your background CSS code?

.YourBackgroundClassHere {
 -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=50)";
}

denisegoldberg · July 16, 2014

avman wrote: »

...My wife's computer is using Win XP therefore only has IE 8 (her preferred).

Are you aware that Microsoft has dropped support for Windows XP and for IE8? That means no updates, including no Windows Defender updates, leaving yourself potentially open to threats. I would be concerned about continuing to use that operating system.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-support-help

--- Denise

Hikin' Mike · July 16, 2014

I'm still using XP.

avman · July 16, 2014

Hikin' Mike wrote: »
Did you add this to your background CSS code?
.YourBackgroundClassHere {
 -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Alpha(Opacity=50)";
}

It didn't work....Thank you
On the flip side - I think I may try no background photo for a while...just to see.....

I was gonna ask .... when Win2K was no longer supported, where was all the security fuss?
Jus' saying......

Hikin' Mike · July 16, 2014

avman wrote: »

It didn't work....Thank you
On the flip side - I think I may try no background photo for a while...just to see.....

I was gonna ask .... when Win2K was no longer supported, where was all the security fuss?
Jus' saying......

I'm going to assume you didn't just copy and paste the code I posted. That will not work because '.YourBackgroundClassHere' is NOT a class.

ChancyRat · July 17, 2014

I use IE8 for a work-related app, and it is only this year that an alternative was found (but not yet fully implemented).
I have thought that keeping my SM site functional in IE8 was necessary because it appears 10% of the world still uses IE8...
http://theie8countdown.com/

thenickdude · July 17, 2014

That "10% IE8" figure is probably really, really old. Wikipedia's traffic stats show between 2 and 3% IE8 visitors. On my SmugMug site, IE8 accounts for just 0.2% of all sessions. If you are using Google Analytics, you can check your website's user stats for yourself.

denisegoldberg · July 19, 2014

ChancyRat wrote: »

...because it appears 10% of the world still uses IE8.

Wow - you're going through a lot of unnecessary effort for a browser that is no longer supported and no longer updated from a virus-protection standpoint.

When I look at the browsers used by the viewers of my site, I was surprised to see IE in the 2nd spot - but almost all of those views were using IE11.

--- Denise

ChancyRat · July 19, 2014

Thanks Nicholas and Denise... I haven't done a lot of work... some of the needed code is in some places, but I haven't known what to do for the most part. Being stuck with 8 at work leads one to think 8 is out there more. I'm so happy now to be able to ignore the poor formatting I see in 8, for some elements like transparency.

Hikin' Mike · July 19, 2014

denisegoldberg wrote: »

Wow - you're going through a lot of unnecessary effort for a browser that is no longer supported and no longer updated from a virus-protection standpoint.

When I look at the browsers used by the viewers of my site, I was surprised to see IE in the 2nd spot - but almost all of those views were using IE11.

--- Denise

I just looked at my SM site in GA. For the past year: #1 FF, #2 Chrome, #3 Safari, #4 IE. Those using IE: IE10 (75), IE11 (72), IE9 (40), and IE8 (29).

The WordPress theme I'm using only supports the last two versions of IE. I do the same with SM.

IE 8 help please!

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