On 18 February 2014 21:55, Nick North <[email protected]> wrote: > Have you tried the Fauxton interface? That's experimental but might be > worth a try. Go to .../_utils/fauxton/index.html and you should have an > icon of a person at the bottom left of the browser which you can click on > to log in. This works for me in IE11, but I don't have an IE8 installation > to test on.
just because it comes to my mind. here are free available windows VM's with the different Windows versions and IE's http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools > > On 18 February 2014 20:42, matt j. sorenson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Jason Winshell <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > Jens, > > > > > > Thanks for the speedy response. I certainly appreciate the > low-bandwidth > > > situation of the folks who generously contribute their time. > Nonetheless, > > > IE is the browser used by government and many corporations. This is > not a > > > matter of what browser is better than another. It's just a fact of > life. > > I > > > as a contractor, don't get to dictate the tools used in those > > environments. > > > IT staff, like database administrators are absolutely not going to use > > curl > > > (assuming it's even allowed to be installed on machines) to manage a > > > database. CouchDB has to have > > > > > > > Got to cut you off there... open source projects don't *have* to do > > anything the project's community doesn't elect to do, they don't even > have > > to continue existing. If making bizarre urgent demands of technology is > > how government contracting has conditioned you to cope with problems, > there > > are plenty of commercial database alternatives who'd no doubt appreciate > > your dollars. > > > > > > > I'm curious as to what the QA process is for posting official releases. > > > What is the test regression process? > > > > > > > Here's where you can help - earlier in the thread I alluded to just one > of > > many possible ways that QA could be improved to alleviate cross-browser > > woes, but it doesn't automagically happen. If you want to see > improvements, > > stop waxing pathetic about /gub'ment this/ and /draconian IT that/... and > > instead resolve to contribute. > > > > > > > > > > DISCLAIMER: All positions and opinions expressed here-in are Matt's and > > Matt's alone, and may not represent the CouchDB project, it's committers, > > or it's sponsors. > > > > --matt > > > -- Andy Wenk Hamburg - Germany RockIt! http://www.couchdb-buch.de http://www.pg-praxisbuch.de GPG fingerprint: C044 8322 9E12 1483 4FEC 9452 B65D 6BE3 9ED3 9588 https://people.apache.org/keys/committer/andywenk.asc
