[dmd-internals] Planning software?

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Wed Jan 18 12:12:23 PST 2012


On 18 jan 2012, at 20:45, Walter Bright wrote:

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> On 1/18/2012 9:14 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
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>> That's a concern, not that trello doesn't support IE8 but that Walter uses it.
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> Whether I use IE8 or not is irrelevant to using trello.
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.


Sorry, I probably should have added a smiley after that comment.

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/Jacob Carlborg



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