IE9 \ IE7 compatibility view : images do not show until resize browserwindow

[Edu Hackenitz]

We have IE9 running in IE7 compatibility mode. The bookreader does not show any image until we resize the browser window. Perhaps we're looking at a IE bug but if it is a bookreaderbug then fixing would be very nice for testing the different IE flavours. We use the latest release 29 from github

[mangtronix (mang)]

Any patches to improve compatibility with IE7 and IE7 compatibility mode would be gladly accepted. We don't have much in the way of resources to devote to IE7.

[Edu Hackenitz (e-hackenitz)]

Hi,

We have little resources as well. To make things clear, the bug is not reproducable in IE7. It only occurs in IE9 in the compability mode so it is good to know for testers that this can happen.

[Edu Hackenitz (e-hackenitz)]

We did some further investigation and it looks like this bug is also present in the IE7 as well as in ie9 with compatibility view.
We think it is related to the jquery-ui-1.8.5.custom.min.js When we replace this with jquery-ui-1.8.1.custom.min.js the bug disappears and the readers shows the images.....but then we have no slider at the bottom.
We think it is wise to support ie7+8+9 for a lot of browsers in ' library landscape' are not state of the art.
Furthermore this bug seems to appear on safari+macos as well.

[Edu Hackenitz (e-hackenitz)]

After some debugging we think we might have found the solution though further testing is needed

Original stylesheet
#BookReader {
 position:absolute;

Change to
#BookReader {
 position:fixed;

This is specialy true when you try to plug in some other non-bookreader stuff (like a left navigation tool bar ...)