code review 6847118: goplay: does not work on IE.

goplay: does not work on IE.

[mattn, 2012-11-28 07:32:20]

Hello golang-dev@googlecode.com (cc: golang-dev@googlegroups.com), I'd like you to review this change to http://go.googlecode.com/hg/

[0xjnml, 2012-11-28 08:45:41]

On 2012/11/28 07:32:20, mattn wrote: > I'd like you to review this change to > http://go.googlecode.com/hg/ - Which/what issue does this fix? - Is the current code not following the standards or is IE not following the standards? In the later case I don't like the idea of IE specific hacks.

[mattn, 2012-11-28 09:01:17]

> - Which/what issue does this fix? Current code contains some part for IE by halves (See preventDefault). Probably, I added this part in long ago. However i didn't check goplay working for a while. > - Is the current code not following the standards or is IE not following the standards? In the later case I don't like the idea of IE specific hacks. IE does not support HTML5, so selection APIs is not exists. http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/editing.html#selection-0 I don't know whether dev-team support IE for a long time(?) or not.

[minux1, 2012-11-28 11:15:10]

personally, i do not care much about ie support given that we have many much better free alternatives. in fact, iirc, even golang.org doesn't look right under ie. 

[rsc, 2012-11-28 14:05:12]

Which version of IE is this fixing? It would be nice to support at least the most recent one, assuming it is not too difficult. But I am not worried about 5-year-old IEs. Russ 

[mattn, 2012-11-28 14:44:40]

Sorry for top post, I'm writing from mobile handy phone. minux: I'm thinking it's not difficult to support IE, golang.org does not contains many HTML5 stuff or modern browser specific codes as worry about. russ: I checked on IE8. On 11/28/12, Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org> wrote: > Which version of IE is this fixing? It would be nice to support at > least the most recent one, assuming it is not too difficult. But I am > not worried about 5-year-old IEs. > > Russ > -- - Yasuhiro Matsumoto