Swaroop Rao
(MikeLynch <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:MikeLynch>)



On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Arun Ganesh <arun.plane...@gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas <dsv...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Arun,
>>
>> In fact I am sorry. Sorry for taking the real bunter so seriously and
>> personally, sorry for having a go at you.
>>
>> Guys here kept on convincing me that it was a joke, but I was blinded so
>> much in my false anger. I really apologise for that. I have inly seen all
>> serious discussions and allegations recently and from the very first day of
>> joining this list, that I could simply not think that someone mught even
>> joke here.
>>
> No problem, I totally understood why I could have been misunderstood. I
> myself am scared to post on the India lists because it feels like I'm about
> to enter combat with unknown assailants who strike wherever you are not
> looking. These lists are meant to be for discussions on topics of our
> interest and building online relationships with fellow contributors. If we
> cant make it fun then what's the point of contributing?
>
> Regarding the bug, I feel at sometime a decision should be taken to stop
> active support for old browsers. We are still spending valuable development
> time and effort on fixing issues such as these when we could be
> concentrating on building stuff for the future. I can understand if there
> are people using ie7 out of their own will, but from previous cases, it
> does seem like a good chunk of users are in offices because of outdated IT
> policy. The IT policy has to eventually see reason and change, so why cant
> it be now? It will just make the world a better place :)
>
IE7 and even IE6 still have quite a lot of users I think (IE6 being the
default browser shipped with WinXP, which is used widely). AFAIK, Microsoft
stops support for WinXP in 2014, and so we could go on for 2 more years I
guess.

> Arun
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