On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, William Stein wrote:
>
> On 8/7/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Regarding Internet Explorer, the fact is it would
>>> be 1-2 day's of work to make the SAGE notebook reasonably
>>> usable from IE 7. Shift-enter would be replaced by
>>> a submit button and some of the CSS would have to be
>>> reworked, but otherwise most things would work. It hasn't
>>> happened yet, mainly because none of the people who know how
>>> the SAGE notebook work actually use IE. Supporting IE7
>>> is definitely worth doing.
>>
>>
>> Depending on funding, this might happen some time this month. It used to be
>> a 2-3 day job, but most features have had their IE-aware code stripped out,
>> since it was often causing more trouble than it was worth.
>>
>
> Hopefully many of those features disappeared from SAGE in the
> new version of the notebook. I optimistically think it is 2 days to
> get something that is "fully usable". (This means that the CSS
> produces pages that are actually readable, and it is possible
> to evaluate cells, insert cells, etc.)
I agree that it would probably take around 2 days for it to work, and suck a
little. I think it'd take a week (plus) for it to work nicely. I recall that
cross-browser introspection was a hard problem, but doable.
> What does "depending on funding" mean above, by the way? Does
> it mean, if I pay you some money out of startup? Another option
> is that I could finally get the tax-free donation (via credit card,
> etc.) setup through UW math, and we could see if somebody would
> donate a total of say $200 to support you spending a few days
> on this. What do you think? It would be interesting to have
> a comment in the code listing who paid for certain functionality...
It means, I'm kinda broke, so I'll do work on the notebook for pay.
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