[basetemplates] Unbreak IE (closes #4739799)

The X-UA-Compatible directive forces IE9+ to go into IE8 mode, which never actually behaves like IE8 and actively breaks everything (b0rked layout, missing text, dysfunctional forms, etc).

Also remove html5.js as it's not shipped anywhere.

authorRémi Cardona <remi.cardona@logilab.fr>
changesetbf53a55fcd9a
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views/basetemplates.py
# HG changeset patch
# User Rémi Cardona <remi.cardona@logilab.fr>
# Date 1422004028 -3600
# Fri Jan 23 10:07:08 2015 +0100
# Node ID bf53a55fcd9ad0d1d551382f8cf3f96495e8d133
# Parent cb22df23c857a47d6a9ebb86fe43035fc9685a54
[basetemplates] Unbreak IE (closes #4739799)

The X-UA-Compatible directive forces IE9+ to go into IE8 mode, which
never actually behaves like IE8 and actively breaks everything (b0rked
layout, missing text, dysfunctional forms, etc).

Also remove html5.js as it's not shipped anywhere.

diff --git a/views/basetemplates.py b/views/basetemplates.py
@@ -40,25 +40,17 @@ 
1  def template_html_header(self, content_type, page_title,
2                           additional_headers=()):
3      w = self.whead
4      lang = self._cw.lang
5      self.write_doctype()
6 -    # explictly close the <base> tag to avoid IE 6 bugs while browsing DOM
7      self._cw.html_headers.define_var('BASE_URL', self._cw.base_url())
8      self._cw.html_headers.define_var('DATA_URL', self._cw.datadir_url)
9      w(u'<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="%s; charset=%s"/>\n'
10        % (content_type, self._cw.encoding))
11      w(u'<meta name="viewport" content="initial-scale=1.0; '
12        u'maximum-scale=1.0; width=device-width; "/>')
13      w(u'\n'.join(additional_headers) + u'\n')
14 -    # FIXME this is a quick option to make cw work in IE9
15 -    # you'll lose all IE9 functionality, the browser will act as IE8.
16 -    w(u'<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />\n')
17 -    w(u'<!-- Le HTML5 shim, for IE6-8 support of HTML elements -->\n'
18 -      u'  <!--[if lt IE 9]>\n'
19 -      u'        <script src="%s"></script>\n'
20 -      u'  <![endif]-->\n' % self._cw.data_url('js/html5.js'))
21      self.wview('htmlheader', rset=self.cw_rset)
22      if page_title:
23          w(u'<title>%s</title>\n' % xml_escape(page_title))
24 
25  @monkeypatch(basetemplates.TheMainTemplate)