Simon de Vlieger wrote: > On 17 jun 2010, at 22:44, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > >>> In web app land, "supported browsers" usually means the ones the >>> designer targets: e.g., including "IE>= 7" in the list means that the >>> designer doesn't have to include workarounds for stupid glitches in >>> earlier IEs (or even test the design against those versions). >>> >>> For CSS, this means that the site's appearance will be sometimes wonky >>> when running with an older-than-supported browser version. Features >>> which depend on Javascript may not work at all, or only in degraded >>> mode. >> >> I have a really hard time answering that question then: there was no >> web designer involved in creating PyPI (*). The browser that the >> *authors* of the service target are really the ones I mentioned: all >> of them. >> >> There is one browser that gets special attention, and flaws relating >> to it get fixed faster than for any other browser: setuptools. >> >> Regards, >> Martin >> >> (*) of course, it uses the layout of python.org, which did have a web >> designer; for this design, I don't know the answer. > > Martin, > > a question from me. Does setuptools browse the main pypi pages or does > it use the simple version?
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