Formal white, Moodle 1.9 and IE 6 - navbar arrows not showing

Formal white, Moodle 1.9 and IE 6 - navbar arrows not showing

by Just H -
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Hi folks

Just updated my main site to 1.9 gold and for some reason all arrowheads (such as in the navbar, calendar, assign roles etc.) are showing up as an empty square rather than arrows.

I have another site that has been running 1.9 for months and there's not been an issue with arrowheads. Holding off on updating that one now.

Any idea what the problem would be?

Regards

H

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Re: Formal white, Moodle 1.9 and IE 6 - navbar arrows not showing

by Gary Anderson -
Harry:

I can confirm that this is a problem with formal white on 1.9 with IE 6.0.

It is not a problem with Firefox or IE 7.0

The problem character, in some fonts, is #x25BA

You will probably want to report it to the tracker.
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Re: Formal white, Moodle 1.9 and IE 6 - navbar arrows not showing

by Just H -
Hi Gary

Thanks for the reply, wonder what changed from 1.9RC4 to 1.9 Gold?

Before posting a bug report I'll have a quick look to see if I can spot anything when I get home tonight.

regards
H
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Re: Formal white, Moodle 1.9 and IE 6 - navbar arrows not showing

by Andrea Bicciolo -
Formal white has been updated for 1.9 Gold release. Make sure the bug is confirmed (for example, press F5 to reload latests css), then please file a bug in the tracker and if possible assign it to me.
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Re: Formal white, Moodle 1.9 and IE 6 - navbar arrows not showing

by Mauno Korpelainen -

The problem is in this tag added to fw_fonts.css:

span.arrow {
  font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}

In standard theme we have

/* Accessibility: only certain fonts support Unicode chars like ► in IE6 */
.arrow, .arrow_button input {
  font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Courier,sans-serif;
}

Verdana does not support ► in IE6 but it is easy to change that tag.

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Re: Formal white, Moodle 1.9 and IE 6 - navbar arrows not showing

by Andrea Bicciolo -
Committed a new fw_fonts.css in moodle_19_stable. Anyone reported the bug in the tracker? If yes, what is the bug id?
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Re: Formal white, Moodle 1.9 and IE 6 - navbar arrows not showing

by Just H -
Hi gents

Gary, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Mauno, thanks for pinpointing the problem, just deleted "Verdana" from the tag and my arrows are back smile

Andrea, thanks for fixing so quickly in CVS.

I doubt if a bug has been filed, I was going to check a few things last night after work before filing a bug report but didn't get a chance to (fell asleep sadly . . . only been getting about 3 hrs sleep per night this week due to work deadlines and it caught up with me last night!).

Got to love the support you get in these forums, much appreciated gents smile

Regards
H
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Re: Formal white, Moodle 1.9 and IE 6 - navbar arrows not showing

by Andrea Bicciolo -
No problem for the bug. Would be appreciated if you can check whether or not the fix in CVS works for you.
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Re: Formal white, Moodle 1.9 and IE 6 - navbar arrows not showing

by Manish Verma -
I have noticed similar type of problem with OperaMini (Nokia N73) after/before removing, "Verdana" according to the post(s) above.
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Re: Formal white, Moodle 1.9 and IE 6 - navbar arrows not showing

by Just H -
Hi Andrea

Just deleted the file I modified then did a CVS update and indeed the arrows are back smile

Does still to be a bit of a bug though. As you can see from the attached, there's no space before the arrows.

Thought I'd try all the themes that come with a normal install to see what the deal is (was going to include them all in the screen shot but was a bit repetitive).

Bottom line is that all included themes other than Orange white (and the PDA version) show the arrows in IE6. The only theme that appears to show them properly (i.e. with the space before) is Custom corners.

I've filed a bug report (MDL-13834) so hopefully all theme gurus can fix their theme's up.

Thanks again for such a qick response.

Regards
H
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