[imp] Re: HTML composition in non-IE browsers...

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Marko Djukic <marko at oblo.com>:

> Quoting Henry Blackman <h.blackman at chester.ac.uk>:
>
> > > Let me get this straight.  The piece of code thats been in active
> > development
> > > for months that we designed for imp may not even be considered for
> > inclusion
> > > because  it doesn't include support for a Microsoft browser?
> Hummmph.
> >
> > I'd point to the *fact* that real users (not the likes of us on these
> > lists), on the whole, use IE.  I'd have to question overall, how useful
> > would non-IE functionality be?
> >
> > That said, why don't you provide a patch against HEAD on your own
> website.
> > I'm sure there are plenty of Mozilla/Firebird shops out there at use
> Horde
> > and would very much appreciate a patch like this very much.
>
> i'm not sure why is this becoming such a big issue, is there a problem
> with
> having both pieces of code and a simple browser detect to figure out
> which one
> to use? ... as opposed to bashing each other to find a solution for each
> code
> to work on the other browser.

Because there are solutions (like htmlarea) that support both engines, IE
and Gecko, and it simply doesn't make sense to blow this code even more up
if you can instead integrate it better than now and cover more browsers.

This was dicussed on the mailing lists more than once, btw.

Jan.

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