On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 08:44, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Jacob Helwig wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 07:18, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Gerrit is known to not work in Internet Explorer. As an open source >> > developer, my primary desktop system runs Linux. My portable laptops >> > all run Mac OS X, because its shiny. I have no system capable of >> > running Internet Explorer, nor do I desire to send dollars towards >> > Redmond in order to obtain an OS license in order to do so. >> > >> > Something is busted in the IE AJAX code used by Gerrit Code Review. >> > I'm guessing that instead of making the data available to the AJAX >> > callback, IE wants to save it as a file on disk. No clue why. >> > And due to the lack of IE, I am unable to debug the problem myself. >> > I am waiting for someone who really cares about using IE to debug >> > it and contribute the patch back. >> > >> >> I've found IEs4Linux helpful for debugging IE-only issues under Linux. >> >> http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page >> >> I don't recall, off hand, if it'll provide IE 7 (and the site isn't >> working for me right now, so I can't confirm this). It does provide >> IE 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0, however. > > If I understand Shawn (and the motto "scratch your own itch") correctly, > Shawn was not so much interested in being pointed to a way of running IE > himself, but more in people who absolutely want to run IE themselves to go > and fix the issues. > > Ciao, > Dscho > > Oh, I understand "scratch your own itch", but there's also a difference between unable to, and unwilling to. ;-) I wouldn't have questioned it, or said anything, if it was simply put as: "Known issue, but we don't use IE, so it's not a priority for us. Patches welcome." (Note: I'm not saying that Shawn should be willing to, just that he's not "unable" to. I also don't claim to know the full nuances of any possible licensing issues.) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
