Have you tried the Fauxton interface? That's experimental but might be worth a try. Go to .../_utils/fauxton/index.html and you should have an icon of a person at the bottom left of the browser which you can click on to log in. This works for me in IE11, but I don't have an IE8 installation to test on.
On 18 February 2014 20:42, matt j. sorenson <m...@sorensonbros.net> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Jason Winshell <jas...@bearriver.com > >wrote: > > > Jens, > > > > Thanks for the speedy response. I certainly appreciate the low-bandwidth > > situation of the folks who generously contribute their time. Nonetheless, > > IE is the browser used by government and many corporations. This is not a > > matter of what browser is better than another. It's just a fact of life. > I > > as a contractor, don't get to dictate the tools used in those > environments. > > IT staff, like database administrators are absolutely not going to use > curl > > (assuming it's even allowed to be installed on machines) to manage a > > database. CouchDB has to have > > > > Got to cut you off there... open source projects don't *have* to do > anything the project's community doesn't elect to do, they don't even have > to continue existing. If making bizarre urgent demands of technology is > how government contracting has conditioned you to cope with problems, there > are plenty of commercial database alternatives who'd no doubt appreciate > your dollars. > > > > I'm curious as to what the QA process is for posting official releases. > > What is the test regression process? > > > > Here's where you can help - earlier in the thread I alluded to just one of > many possible ways that QA could be improved to alleviate cross-browser > woes, but it doesn't automagically happen. If you want to see improvements, > stop waxing pathetic about /gub'ment this/ and /draconian IT that/... and > instead resolve to contribute. > > > > > DISCLAIMER: All positions and opinions expressed here-in are Matt's and > Matt's alone, and may not represent the CouchDB project, it's committers, > or it's sponsors. > > --matt >
