Re: Add announcements to the upper right corner of the website (issue 6068045)

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On 27 avr. 2012, at 10:55, David Kastrup wrote:

> address@hidden writes:
> 
>> LGTM, one minor question but it's ok with me.
>> 
>> 
>> http://codereview.appspot.com/6068045/diff/13001/Documentation/web.texi
>> File Documentation/web.texi (right):
>> 
>> http://codereview.appspot.com/6068045/diff/13001/Documentation/web.texi#newcode172
>> Documentation/web.texi:172: xhttp=new
>> ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
>> My initial intuition is that there should be a simpler way to get the
>> contents of a file on the same server, but I happily know almost nothing
>> about javascript.
>> 
>> If somebody else knows javascript, it would be great if they glanced at
>> this.
>> 
>> http://codereview.appspot.com/6068045/
> 
> What's the relation to ActiveX?  Does this only work on browsers
> enabling ActiveX?  That would be very strange for the project page of a
> GNU project.
> 

This bit is needed for IE 6 and 7.
Although I agree with what you're saying, I think that the webpage should 
display correctly for all people who try to access it (to the best of our 
abilities).

Cheers,
MS