[OpenLayers-Dev] IE8 beta

[Ivan Grcic]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Christopher Schmidt
<crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:08:29PM +0200, Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> has anybody done some testing with IE8 beta already? Is the upcoming 2.7
>> release expected to be compatible with IE8 beta?
>
> Bart,
>
> There are no plans to test OL 2.7 with IE8.
>
I totally agree, there should be no time spent with IE anymore. Ive
already lost so much time on that, and I believe many of you have
also!

Regards,
Ivan

> At this point, the only release hasn't even resulted in *VirtualEarth*
> working: They use IE7 compatibility mode on their own pages. If
> Microsoft isn't up to the task of making their maps work with their
> browser, I'm certainly not going to spend a lot of time on doing the
> same for OpenLayers.
>
> My feeling is that the current betas simply aren't ready. If this
> changes before our release, we may take some steps to change this, but I
> haven't seen evidence that this is likely before our 2.7 release.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta
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