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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Gerrit Code Review 2.0.3
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 09:09:15 -0800
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Jacob Helwig wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 07:18, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Something is busted in the IE AJAX code used by Gerrit Code Review.
> > 
> > I've found IEs4Linux helpful for debugging IE-only issues under Linux.
> > 
> > http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page
> > 
> > I don't recall, off hand, if it'll provide IE 7 (and the site isn't
> > working for me right now, so I can't confirm this).  It does provide
> > IE 5.0, 5.5, and 6.0, however.
> 
> If I understand Shawn (and the motto "scratch your own itch") correctly, 
> Shawn was not so much interested in being pointed to a way of running IE 
> himself, but more in people who absolutely want to run IE themselves to go 
> and fix the issues.

Indeed.

There are probably also license issues with running IE under Linux.
IIRC Microsoft only licenses IE for use under Windows itself,
and with a valid Windows OS license.  As a professional developer,
I do actually try to respect the license under which software is
delivered to me, even if I have no respect for the vendor... ;-)

-- 
Shawn.