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New Post: Problem With TOC Sizing In IE9

somedave — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:53:51 GMT

Thanks for looking at this. I was also able to get it to work on my local system. The host I'm using only supports plain HTML pages, hence the use of Index.html instead of the ASP page. I do suspect that some interplay between the script(s) and the server is causing the issue. I find it interesting that the site works fine for all other browsers I was able to test. I also think the debugging behavior I observed was odd - being able to watch the height and width properties being changed in the DOM without the new value taking hold. I'm at a loss to explain the symptoms based on server misconfiguration alone (otherwise why would it work in other browsers) or JavaScript alone (otherwise why would it work locally). I'll probably do a little more research and let you know if I figure it out.

New Post: Problem With TOC Sizing In IE9

somedave — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:53:51 GMT

New Post: Problem With TOC Sizing In IE9

somedave — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:53:51 GMT

New Post: Problem With TOC Sizing In IE9

EWoodruff — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:50:58 GMT

I don't see the problem when running a site off of my local file system (i.e. opening the Index.html page from the GUI) or on my own site (http://www.ewoodruff.us/shfbdocs/Index.html). I notice that your site doesn't open the Index.aspx page but instead returns the literal content of the file. Perhaps you have an issue with the way your site is configured.

Eric

New Post: Problem With TOC Sizing In IE9

EWoodruff — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:50:58 GMT

Eric

New Post: Problem With TOC Sizing In IE9

EWoodruff — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:50:58 GMT

Eric

New Post: Problem With TOC Sizing In IE9

somedave — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:28:12 GMT

I've discovered a problem with TOC sizing in IE9. Take a look at the following site: http://nicethreads.assembla.me/Index.html. Under Firefox, etc. it appears to render correctly. However, under IE9 the height and width of the TOC and content area never get correctly set. I debugged the JavaScript in the IE developer tools console and noticed that in TOC.js in ResizeContent() just after the "topicContent.style.width = maxWidth - (divSizer.offsetLeft + divSizer.offsetWidth);" call topicContent.style.width still doesn't have a value - it appears it's not setting it. I'd guess this is a problem for any width/height changes through the DOM. I couldn't trace the problem any further than that

New Post: Problem With TOC Sizing In IE9

somedave — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:28:12 GMT

New Post: Problem With TOC Sizing In IE9

somedave — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:28:12 GMT

New Post: Improvements to HTML table of contents

tom103 — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:11:18 GMT

Hi Eric,

My name is Thomas Levesque.

The solution you propose seems good, let me know if you need me to update the PHP code.

Regards,
Thomas

New Post: Improvements to HTML table of contents

tom103 — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 21:11:18 GMT

Hi Eric,

My name is Thomas Levesque.

The solution you propose seems good, let me know if you need me to update the PHP code.

Regards,
Thomas

Patch Applied: #11526

EWoodruff — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:24:23 GMT

EWoodruff has applied patch #11526.

Comment:
Merged into the project. Thanks.

New Post: Improvements to HTML table of contents

EWoodruff — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:23:29 GMT

Thanks. I'll merge them in. What's your name? I'll give you credit in the files and the release notes for creating them. Regarding the modified script file, I think we could probably put a variable in the index pages to set an extension to use in the script (".aspx" or ".php"). That would probably work and then there'd be only the one script file to manage.

Eric

New Post: Improvements to HTML table of contents

EWoodruff — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:23:29 GMT

Eric

New Post: Improvements to HTML table of contents

tom103 — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:17:50 GMT

Hi Eric,

I implemented the search in PHP, it works great (you can see it live here). I uploaded the files as patch 11526.

Notes about this patch:

it only contains the web files, not the changes in SHFB to include them in the build output
there is a specific version of TOC.js (named TOC.php.js) that makes AJAX requests to the PHP scripts instead of the ASPX ones. There's probably a more elegant way to handle this, but I didn't bother too much...

Regards,
Thomas

New Post: Improvements to HTML table of contents

tom103 — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:17:50 GMT

Hi Eric,

I implemented the search in PHP, it works great (you can see it live here). I uploaded the files as patch 11526.

Notes about this patch:

it only contains the web files, not the changes in SHFB to include them in the build output (EDIT: apparently you just need to modify BuildProcess.GenerateWebSite to apply TransformTemplate on PHP files as well)

there is a specific version of TOC.js (named TOC.php.js) that makes AJAX requests to the PHP scripts instead of the ASPX ones. There's probably a more elegant way to handle this, but I didn't bother too much...

Regards,
Thomas

Patch Uploaded: #11526

tom103 — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 15:08:01 GMT

tom103 has uploaded a patch.

Description:
PHP version of the web index, as discussed here: http://shfb.codeplex.com/discussions/287959
Also includes automatic TOC synchronization when the IFRAME location changes

New Post: Improvements to HTML table of contents

tom103 — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:41:13 GMT

Eric,

Great news! It should now be fairly easy to implement search in PHP, I'll do it as soon as possible.

Thomas

New Post: Improvements to HTML table of contents

tom103 — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 00:41:13 GMT

Eric,

Great news! It should now be fairly easy to implement search in PHP, I'll do it as soon as possible.

Thomas

New Post: Improvements to HTML table of contents

EWoodruff — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 21:59:07 GMT

Thanks for the reference. I didn't know about the JavaScript serializer. It's hard to keep up with all the changes to the framework. I've implemented it and checked the changes into source control. I also implemented the Direct Link option. Thanks for the suggestions.

Eric