On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 17:56 +0000, Neil Mitchell wrote: > Hi > > > In general I'd say that MSIE should be avoided and updated to newer > > version like 7 or 8 (according to wikipedia they should be avaible for > > Windows XP - or at least they were available when Windows XP was > > supported) - IE6 have technology from 2001. I understand however that it > > may be outside your control (maybe portable Fx would be solution?) > > I strongly agree that MSIE 6 should be avoided, but for many company > networks it's required. The big problem isn't that 16% (or whatever) > of people use it, it's that while technical people will use a modern > and powerful browser, many non-technical managers will just use the > default settings/systems, and it gives a bad impression if when told > that "Haskell is a great tool" a manager looks up haskell.org and sees > a messy splat. > > For reference, the new Haddock style also gives various rendering > issues in IE6. I reported these a while back (to Mark) but never got > any response. > > Thanks, Neil
I cannot speak for anyone but from what I remember supporting MSIE is neither trivial nor fan. If you happen to use newer version of IE or even different operating system (if I remember correctly most of Haskell users use GNU/Linux) then you have bad luck - you have to use other tools like virtual machines etc. - only to find out that you have not been visited once by IE 6. I'm not sure how many changes are going to be commited into haddock backend/themes but once ported it would need to be maintained. Regards
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