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That would be really nice from an accessibility perspective, too 👍

why are we arguing about which browser is best

Slack is great.

Even better when combined with https://sameroom.io/, which would allow a bridge between IRC and Gitter, too.

Un1matr1x wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2015 5:09 pm

nickvergessen wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2015 7:05 pm

nickvergessen wrote: I updated the area51 repo so it contains the fix. Lets hope it gets automatic live :see_no_evil:

Did you change the url to ?mode=edit by hand or is this a bug

he was quoting himself from earlier in the thread

0_o https://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopi ... 61#p281261

As long as we keep on using progressive enhancement, phpBB will always "work" in IE8, even if it doesn't look completely right (unsupported CSS) or some functionality doesn't seem to be working (unsupported JS operations), it will always be possible to simply use phpBB with any browser.


that's ...

It's not all about nobody caring, it's about time spent supporting it and whether it is worth it, though. Of course someone will get *beep* off if phpBB breaks in IE8—but if it speeds up a release by two weeks, it's probably worth it.

You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/the-best-browser-internet-explorer-vs-chrome-vs-firefox-vs-safari-vs-project-spartan/

As someone who spends ~45 hours a week doing front-end development, I do :) I spend most of my time in Chrome because ...

I don't see how revisioning the filename would solve the problem

Imo, front-end developers contributing to phpBB should also be able to modify the front-end tooling.