We’ve been silent on these pages recently. The reason for that is a series of meetings that we’ve had, plus some steering that we’re doing on our roadmap (more on this will follow).
One of the things that kept us busy in the past month has been this bug. Basically we were rendering awfully on IE.
We’d had this issue for a while and it was just time to get dirty on it. Working with Jan has been really instructive and, beside reminding me that developers suck at designing UIs, I’ve learnt that supporting IE6 it’s not really a matter of throwing fixes or using javascript libraries reporting to support it (we use JQuery here).
We could get the basic layout fixed, but we didn’t get anywhere near solving all the issues we had so, after two days spent on black magic css-ing, we took the decision: Atalaya (at least in its 1.x versions) won’t support IE6.
IE6 has still 30% of browser share, but it’s been constantly declining over the past here and especially after IE7 was released. Also, our target users are probably the least likely to have IE6 on their corporate computers, which makes this decision reasonable after all.
This decision aligns with our objective of taking a fresh look at our UI for Atalaya 2.0 (hold on:)), thus not spending a lot of time on the current look&feel (yes, the JFreeChart charts really suck we know).
Ah, the online demo has been updated with the fixes, and contains some new features also. Go check it out:)
Tags: ui