Please sign this petition to restore the previous ESRI website design!

[MatthewGoulet1]

Is it me, or have the recent changes to ESRI's resources web pages become way more difficult to use?

Personally, I strongly prefer the previous look/feel and have found this new layout and design to be very non-user friendly.

If enough people respond in agreement, perhaps we may implore ESRI to walk back these new designs.

Please reply if you agree.

[bbieb]

Derek,
Do you happen to know when the Javascript team is going to fix the mobile samples?  Everyone of the mobile samples error in IE 8.
Thanks.
brian

[derekswingley1]

Derek,
Do you happen to know when the Javascript team is going to fix the mobile samples?  Everyone of the mobile samples error in IE 8.
Thanks.
brian

In the future, please start a new thread instead of piggybacking on an existing, unrelated thread.

That being said, we'll take a look at the mobile samples in IE8. Realistically, those are meant for browsers running on phones/tablets, not legacy browsers.

[bbieb]

In the future, please start a new thread instead of piggybacking on an existing, unrelated thread.

Sorry about that but I've contacted support multiple times and cannot get a straight answer.  There is also a bug submitted, but of course, that is set to low priority.  Since the API group is active in the forum, I thought I would take a chance (and at the risk of being scolded) to see if the issue could get elevated.

That being said, we'll take a look at the mobile samples in IE8. Realistically, those are meant for browsers running on phones/tablets, not legacy browsers.

Yes, you are correct but if you wanted to create a adaptive web page (to work on both platforms), instead of having 2 separate code bases, you would want the application to also work in IE 8.  Our IE 7/8 usage is still 20% of all hits.  Not something we can ignore.

[derekswingley1]

Sorry about that but I've contacted support multiple times and cannot get a straight answer.  There is also a bug submitted, but of course, that is set to low priority.

Logging a bug is an acknowledgement that something is broken. I would also call that a straight answer. In this particular case, you're right, it's not a high priority to make sample that were designed for browsers on mobile devices run on legacy browsers.

Yes, you are correct but if you wanted to create a adaptive web page (to work on both platforms), instead of having 2 separate code bases, you would want the application to also work in IE 8.  Our IE 7/8 usage is still 20% of all hits.  Not something we can ignore.

In that case, don't use the mobile samples as the basis for your app. Or dig into the mobile samples yourself to address the shortcomings until we do.

In the future, you can always post your questions here but we'll ask for as much info as support:  specifically outline what you're doing, what you expect to happen, what's actually happening and code to reproduce the problem you're having.

[bbieb]

Just trying to get something fixed with our application.  And we felt that if we could get the samples working we could track down where our problem resides.

We've been working on the issue for several months.  Including support calls.  The original one was at the beginning of December.

One of our attempts to get it resolved is here.

I will delete my replies to clean up the this post.

Sorry for the inconvenience.  It will not happen again.

[Jaros_awKowalczyk]

Maybe that will help 🙂
http://web.archive.org/web/20110615053733/http://resources.arcgis.com/