Doesn't work in Internet Explorer

[redmunds]

Initial page loads, but almost nothing else works in IE. I'm using Version 11.0.9600.17239 on Win7.

IE does not update even after saving page in Brackets. Interesting that if you Reload page from IE it pickups changes -- even unsaved changes in Brackets! So, it seems like text is getting updated in browser, but browser is not refreshing.

[sebaslv]

What I've found so far is that at least there is an issue related to how RemoteFunctions is removing elements. It uses node.remove() in a couple of places which seems to be not supported by IE. By replacing it with node.parentNode.removeChild(node);, I got HTML and CSS editing working on my IE version 10.0.92000.17054. We had a similar issue with running this on Android WebView on versions previous to 4.4 which are not based on Chromium.

Now, I'm not sure where to land this fix since RemoteFunctions is part of brackets core. Should we copy the entire file to this repo? Is it probably good time to analyze how we would switch between the current implementation of LiveDevelopment and this new one once it gets stabilized?

[redmunds]

I think it's best to do feature detection (as opposed to browser detection), something like:

    if (node.remove) {
        node.remove();
    } else if (node.parentNode && node.parentNode.remove) {
        node.parentNode.remove();
    } else {
        // ???
    }

I'd be ok with merging something like that into brackets core.

Is it probably good time to analyze how we would switch between the current implementation of LiveDevelopment and this new one once it gets stabilized?

Yes!

cc @dangoor @busykai