[dmd-internals] Planning software?

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:45:17 Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/18/2012 9:14 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> > That's a concern, not that trello doesn't support IE8 but that Walter
> > uses it.
> Whether I use IE8 or not is irrelevant to using trello.
> 
> The issue is more one of telling D developers and collaborators "if you want
> to even look at the project plan, you have to change operating systems or
> install a browser from a different company." It's not like IE8 is rare out
> there, and IE9 will not install on Windows XP. IE8 has what, a 50% market
> share?
> 
> As I wrote here earlier (why was this cross-posted to multiple D mailing
> lists? Now there are two different threads on the same topic.) I submitted
> a bug report on this to trello. The response was they blew it off.
> 
> Should we be blowing off D collaborators with derisive comments about IE8
> users? I'm fine with blowing off DOS users, Windows 95 users, etc., but XP
> is still a widely used operating system and we blow XP developers off at
> our peril. In a couple years, when MS officially dumps support for it,
> maybe.

Personally, I was joking more than anything, though I'm always surprised to 
see a programmer using IE (of whatever version) as their principle browser. 
It's definitely far better than it used to be, but I've avoided it for years on 
general principle, and most computer-savvy that I've known have done the same. 
I'd fully expect programmers to have other browsers installed and be using one 
of those normally.

Still, it's pretty bad that Trello doesn't work on IE8. Even if IE8 were 
absolute junk, it's one of the most used browsers on the planet (though IIRC 
IE in general has fallen below 50% market share now). So, unless there's 
something fundamentally wrong with it that really doesn't make it work with 
what you're trying to do (and maybe even then), I would think that it would be 
quite important to get your web app working on IE8.

- Jonathan M Davis