[Haskell-cafe] Rendering of <hask> in new wiki (MSIE6)

Neil Mitchell ndmitchell at gmail.com
Wed Dec 15 18:56:31 CET 2010


Hi

> In general I'd say that MSIE should be avoided and updated to newer
> version like 7 or 8 (according to wikipedia they should be avaible for
> Windows XP - or at least they were available when Windows XP was
> supported) - IE6 have technology from 2001. I understand however that it
> may be outside your control (maybe portable Fx would be solution?)

I strongly agree that MSIE 6 should be avoided, but for many company
networks it's required. The big problem isn't that 16% (or whatever)
of people use it, it's that while technical people will use a modern
and powerful browser, many non-technical managers will just use the
default settings/systems, and it gives a bad impression if when told
that "Haskell is a great tool" a manager looks up haskell.org and sees
a messy splat.

For reference, the new Haddock style also gives various rendering
issues in IE6. I reported these a while back (to Mark) but never got
any response.

Thanks, Neil



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