Some known Portlet UI issues with IE8 browser

Try this simple feature of WPS if you are testing your portlet application in IE8 browser and suddenly you realize that some of the features w.r.t your application UI are either not working on IE8 browser or may be working but not as per the expectation. The next step for you to spend lot of time with your UX team to fix those issues. The UI issues that most of us encounter with IE browser are related to

• Portlet context menu not displaying at all in IE8.
• Some java scripts is not working properly.
• Some CSS is not getting rendered properly.
• Some pagination is not working as expected and many more.

Follow the below steps to resolve this issue.

1. In WebSphere Portal navigate to Administrative portlets and click on Supported Clients.
2. You can see the "Manage Clients" Portlet. Click on Add New Client link
3. Fill up the necessary details about IE8 as shown below.
4. Save it and you are done.

Here are few more options that you can provide in the form above.

User Agent: .*MSIE 8.0.*
Markup: html
Markup version: ie
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Model: Internet Explorer
Version: 8.0
Capabilities: CACHE_VARY,
HTML_2_0,
HTML_JAVA,
HTML_CSS,
HTML_FRAME,
HTML_TABLE,
HTML_4_0,
HTML_3_2,
HTML_JAVASCRIPT,
HTML_3_0,
HTML_NESTED_TABLE,
FRAGMENT_IDENTIFIER,
HTML_IFRAME