From: Jacob Helwig <jacob.helwig@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:13:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Gerrit Code Review 2.0.3
Message-ID: <8c9a060902170813ie8f5bc1gfed53e4f31f64c23@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090217151838.GI18525@spearce.org>

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 07:18, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> Gerrit is known to not work in Internet Explorer.  As an open source
> developer, my primary desktop system runs Linux.  My portable laptops
> all run Mac OS X, because its shiny.  I have no system capable of
> running Internet Explorer, nor do I desire to send dollars towards
> Redmond in order to obtain an OS license in order to do so.
>
> Something is busted in the IE AJAX code used by Gerrit Code Review.
> I'm guessing that instead of making the data available to the AJAX
> callback, IE wants to save it as a file on disk.  No clue why.
> And due to the lack of IE, I am unable to debug the problem myself.
> I am waiting for someone who really cares about using IE to debug
> it and contribute the patch back.
>

I've found IEs4Linux helpful for debugging IE-only issues under Linux.

http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page

I don't recall, off hand, if it'll provide IE 7 (and the site isn't
working for me right now, so I can't confirm this).  It does provide
IE 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0, however.

-Jacob