Use older FontAwesome For IE7

[spatialbits]

This is a great theme and I really want to see it work in an application I'm building for... IE7.

Most things actually work fine in IE7 (actually IE11 in Compatibility View), except when it comes to the FontAwesome icons. They just appear blank, for example, the Geocoder magnifying glass is simply absent.

According to the FA website there is a version of 3.2.1 that supports IE7. So, I tried replacing Line 1 of CSS/dojo/flat.css with: http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/3.2.1/css/font-awesome-ie7.min.css.

The result was the same, the geocoder icon just appears blank.

FA 3.2.1 does appear to be compatible with the dojo flat theme because when I replace the same line with: http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/3.2.1/css/font-awesome.min.css and open in chrome it works as expected.

Anyone have any clues?

[yiweima]

Hi, actually I never tested it on IE 7 since I don't have a machine running IE. I am not sure if the theme still wants to support older browsers like IE 7 or 8, since both Microsoft and Sitepen are going to abandon them :(

[spatialbits]

For sure, IE7 needs to be buried and forgotten as soon as possible. I wouldn't support it either if I didn't have to.

[headstash]

@spatialbits I'm kind of curious why you're stuck with IE7, but I'm scared to ask, haha. For future reference, if you need to use IE7 for real (not compatibility mode) and you have a Windows 7 machine, you can use Windows XP Mode which is a Windows XP virtual machine provided by Microsoft in Windows 7 to run old software.

[spatialbits]

I'm writing an extension to an enterprise application that was done back in the IE dark ages and never brought up to modern standards. Supposedly they will move away from IE soonish but until then I'm stuck working with what I've got.
Thanks for the suggestion that could come in handy :)