I also initially took the view that CouchDb should not have to support IE8, as Microsoft won't. But searching around shows that Windows 7 initially came with IE8, which puts it under the same support cycle as Windows 7, meaning there are years of pain yet to suffer.
Nick On 19 February 2014 10:37, MikaelSoderstrom <g...@git.apache.org> wrote: > Github user MikaelSoderstrom commented on the pull request: > > https://github.com/apache/couchdb/pull/153#issuecomment-35485395 > > One of the benefits with jQuery is that it just works in all older and > modern browsers (if you are using 1.9.x that is). The drawback is that you > will not the same performance as the built-in functions. > > You can test $.inArray() and Array.prototype.indexOf here: > http://jsperf.com/in-array-vs-inarray-vs-indexof > > If you can use the native methods, you should do that. > > And if we take a look at the ES5 support in browsers, we can see that > IE 8 is the last version of IE that doesn't have full support for this (IE > 9 supports everything except strict mode, which it will just ignore): > http://kangax.github.io/es5-compat-table/ > > Since IE 8 is the latest version that can be installed on Windows XP, > and Microsoft is not going to support Windows XP after april this year, I > guess CouchDB shouldn't have to either. > > Is it really that important to support a browser that not even > Microsoft is going to support in 1½ month? > > > --- > If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your > reply appear on GitHub as well. To do so, please top-post your response. > If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the > feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at > infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. > --- >
