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[Deryck Hodge <deryck.hodge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Robert Collins
<robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:06 AM, curtis Hovey
> <curtis.hovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Lp engineers and/or YUI do not appear to work well with IE 7, 8, 9. How
>> do you propose IE works when JavaScript does not. I really do not have
>> Windows on any of my computers.
>
> I nabbed Curtis for a quick chat on this to get some insight. He says
> the key issue is access to Windows to analyze the cause. Once access
> is available determining the fault is pretty easy.
>
> Amazon EC2 has AMIs running windows which anyone can spin up to
> reproduce and analyze a problem, without having to have a local
> windows machine. All you need is the EC2 web console + tsclient and
> you can be away laughing in minutes.
>

Just to be clear, YUI support for IE is quite good. Usually, the error
causing IE issues is in raw JavaScript outside YUI's API. I can't tell
you the number of dangling comma errors I've seen, but lint helps us
catch those now at least.

Also, I agree, if a developer has access to IE, it's pretty easy to
work out what these errors are about.

Cheers,
deryck


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