IE 8 is very old. If you're on an operating system where IE 8 is the newest IE 
available, you're going to be out of support in April unless you throw money at 
Microsoft. IE 9 should work.

Sent from my Windows Phone
________________________________
From: Jason Winshell<mailto:[email protected]>
Sent: ‎2/‎18/‎2014 12:12
To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Login link missing in 1.5 with Window IE 8

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.
>
>

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