broken in IE

[chaserx]

reported IE8 JS loading error. breaks the entire page. similar breakage in windows phone browser

“Tabletop is undefined”

[chaserx]

I don't have access to a windows machine, but we could probably look into a shortterm browserstack subscription

[eeeschwartz]

I'm inclined to support IE9+ and watch the analytics to see how many IE8 and Windows Phone hits we get. Any thoughts?

[chaserx]

That seems fine to support IE9+ if we can have an overlay directing users to another browser.

[chaserx]

We could use something like http://outdatedbrowser.com/en but this too relies on JS and I think if there other JS errors as the Tabletop require error above that this may not be reliable.

[chaserx]

Browserstack has offered us a subscription in return for public acknowledgement on project

[chaserx]

[chaserx]

http://requirejs.org/docs/errors.html#timeout

[chaserx]

wonder if we have to add to the shims: https://github.com/openlexington/finda/blob/gh-pages/src/script.js#L18-L34

[chaserx]

if you add Tabletop into the shim section of script.js. You get past the tabletop not defined error but now you get this unhelpful error.

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/4.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C)
Timestamp: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 16:10:03 UTC


Message: Script error
Line: 0
Char: 0
Code: 0
URI: https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/worksheets/1ubx07oylGxk5FDIjMnQo4cMNBd3a8QYiPm27rWuyByI/public/basic?alt=json&callback=Tabletop.callbacks.tt14512325595743253

[chaserx]

So... JSON validators hate the // API callback in the first line of the response from the spreadsheet URI above. I'm not sure how to fix that.

[eeeschwartz]

I took a spin in IE11 and the live app is working well. Aside from the JSON validation, do you know of any other IE issues that should remain part of the soft launch?

[chaserx]

no, i don't know of other issues.

[chaserx]

it would be nice to have some indication that you must use a modern browser