[ckan-dev] Internet Explorer support policy

Wed Mar 23 13:16:19 UTC 2011

Hi Adria,

First: amazing work!

Second: please send these sorts of mail to ckan-dev (I've just cc'd
ckan-dev ...)

Third: we'll only aim for IE>=8. At the moment this isn't a hard
requirement but I think we should make it one pretty soon.

Rufus

2011/3/23 Adrià Mercader <amercadero at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
> After sweating some blood I managed to get a working development
> version of CKAN in Windows 7.  I'm not a particular fan of it, but I
> needed to test Javascript stuff in Internet Explorer.
> Luckily enough, my new features seem to work on IE 6,7,8 but sadly
> sometimes this is not the case. Which versions of IE should be
> supported on the CKAN web interface, in terms of functionality (i.e.
> "things working")?
> And in terms of design (i.e. "things looking good"), should we spend
> time trying to make the design look as expected accross browsers or
> just ensure that it's not too ugly in IE? To put some examples, the
> lists at the bottom of the ckan pages (Packages, Groups & Tags,
> Languages, etc.) appear in IE 6 and 7 as a single vertical list,
> instead of different horizontal lists. Not a big deal, and only on old
> versions of IE.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adrià
>

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