779285 - IE10 report from Microsoft regarding website

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Websites Graveyard :: BrowserQuest, defect)

Description

[Terry R.]

Sent to the Mozilla webmaster email:


I am a Program Manager with the Ecosystem Engineering team at Microsoft.
I am writing to notify you of a compatibility issue with mozilla.org on
the Internet Explorer 10.

On February 29, Microsoft announced the availability of the Windows
Consumer Preview. The Consumer Preview provides a great opportunity to
begin testing your websites against the new environment featured in
IE10. This environment includes a single HTML5 browsing engine that
powers two browsing experiences: the new Metro style browser and IE10 on
the desktop.

Call to Action:

1. Download the Windows Consumer Preview

2. Learn more about Internet Explorer 10,
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/

3. Test your site using Compat Inspector - Microsoft’s new tool that
will help identify and resolve common compatibility issues

4. While testing, make sure your site isn’t running in Compatibility
View or else you may not see the problem.

Based on preliminary testing, the following compatibility issues have
been identified with mozilla.org :

Reference #: 779984

Description of the Problem: browserquest.mozilla.org is not functional.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Navigate to http://browserquest.mozilla.org/

2. Click on the "Name your character" box

Expected Result: Box acts like a text input.

Actual Result: There is no response.

Developer Notes:

mozilla.org is overlaying the input field with other elements, and then
setting pointer-events:none on those elements so that mouse clicks pass
thru to the input field. IE10 does not support pointer-events so the
clicks go to other elements and mozilla.org does not work. Updating
mozilla.org resolves this issue.

Modern browsers such as IE 10 have improved and standards such as HTML5
and CSS3 have defined a common set of built-in features that can replace
the need for plugins.

Please let me know if you have an estimated timeframe to address this
issue, and if our team can further assist in this process.

Comment 1

[Takanori MATSUURA]

This bug lies at rest in the graveyard.