IE7 Compatability

[bradvin]

Hey Sam,

This is not an issue but rather just a note for everyone. I was trying to get your icons working in IE7 (I know - I hate it too!) And I came across this stackoverflow question which helped:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4181884/after-and-before-css-pseudo-elements-hack-for-ie-7

Basically, you just need to add

<!--[if lt IE 8]>
<script src="http://ie7-js.googlecode.com/svn/version/2.1(beta4)/IE8.js"></script>
<![endif]-->

and the icons will now work in IE7 - not sure about IE6 but I draw the line at IE7 :)

[tricki]

I unfortunately have to support IE6...
I actually think this is an issue since it doesn't "degrade gracefully (IE6, IE7)" like advertised. On IE6 the icons aren't shown at all.

But your fix worked, at least partially.

Before:

After:

As you can see there are some icons that don't show correctly but most of them work.
If I have time I'll look at getting the others to work as well.

Do you know if there are any drawbacks to using this script like performance?

[gustavohenke]

@tricki probably a CSS hack is less weighty to your page than using an JS file... check here how it's done: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/blob/906345058f738c2b931f89754a319ed108e17bd8/less/font-awesome-ie7.less#L78

[zimbatm]

I tried the JS fix on IE8 but I'm getting numbers instead:

I'm not clear on how to generate the CSS version with fontcustom.

[zimbatm]

It should be possible to have at least IE7 support. See FontCustom/fontcustom#43