[dmd-internals] Planning software?

[Walter Bright]

On 1/18/2012 11:54 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Trello is the first web site I've encountered that won't work with IE8. 
Undoubtedly there will be more in the future, but I don't think our mission is 
to be in the vanguard of evangelizing people to change operating systems or 
switch browsers.

>  I'd fully expect programmers to have other browsers installed and be using one
of those normally.


I had a minor issue with github on IE8, reported it, and the github dev team had 
it fixed within a day. Github is targeted at computer savvy developers. I often 
send around and post links to github pages (and I think doing so is crucial to 
D), with nary a concern that my target audience will not be able to view the pages.