Patches welcome.
On 18 Feb 2014, at 18:11, Jason Winshell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> The bug is in futon.js in the page source, line 269: "Object doesn't support
> this property or method"
>
>
> } else if (userCtx.roles.indexOf("_admin") != -1) { // bug is here for IE
> $("#userCtx .adminparty").show();
> $(".serverAdmin").removeAttr('disabled');
> } else {
> $("#userCtx .loggedout").show();
> };
>
> IE does not support indexOf on array objects. The code need to special case
> for IE.
>
> I suspect this is the page code the creates the login/sign in link. Now that
> I've found the problem, what do I do? Report it where? And of course, how can
> I get a fix into a new build. I'm at a bit of a loss trying to understand how
> a bug like this could go undetected in an official release.
>
> It's essential that Futon work with IE. Corporate and government
> installations dictate the what software is installed on machines. A user
> would not be allowed to install a Couch compatible browser.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jason
>
> On Feb 18, 2014, at 12:49 AM, Garren Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Jason, could you also have a look at the IE developer console and report any
>> errors it shows. You might have to enable the developer console and then
>> reload the page for any errors to show.
>>
>>
>> On 18 Feb 2014, at 10:45 AM, Nick North <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> CouchDb is fully tested only against Firefox, and there are no guarantees
>>> with other browsers. That said, most things work in IE and I can see the
>>> link with IE10 on Windows 7, with that same version of CouchDb. It also
>>> works fine with Windows 8 and IE11 so I suspect it's specific to earlier IE
>>> versions, or else there is something unusual with your setup. Are you able
>>> to try it with a later version of IE? That might tell us something.
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>>
>>> On 17 February 2014 22:47, Jason Winshell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am running CouchDB 1.5 Windows (x86) Erlang/OTP R16B01. After creating
>>>> an admin user in local.ini, the login/signup link does not appear on the
>>>> Futon Overview page when using Internet Explorer 8 (perhaps other
>>>> versions). It works fine with Firefox on Windows. Without the link, logging
>>>> in is not possible. I can create as many users as I want with Firefox. I
>>>> never see a login link on the Overview page with IE. I suspect some
>>>> Javascript compatibility weirdness. What's the story?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>
