Feb 29 2008

Evernote Gets IE7 Support

Published by gringod at 6:58 pm under General

I see from the Evernote blog that they now have support for IE7. I’m assuming that given the fact both desktop and mobile clients released so far have been for Windows and that IE is the second browser (after Firefox) to be officially supported, they are probably primarily a Windows based development company. Either that or they can astute enough to realise that Windows offers the largest user base.

This seems to go against the grain of most Web2.0 startups that seem to favour the [assumed] more tech savvy users of Linux and MacOS.

I was surprised, however, to see that they are running on Apache Tomcat, a Java based web server and development platform. From the look and feel of the application I would have said it had more of a ruby-on-rails feel about it. They do seem to be using a real hodge-podge diverse range of technologies though, the main app is Java, the front/about site is PHP (and I’m disappointed to see that it’s PHP 4.4.0 – come on guys PHP4 support is going to be dropped soon) and the blog is perl powered TypePad.

I’m not sure if that is a good or a bad sign, all I know is that I’m impressed with it so far and I can’t wait to get a desktop interface to run on my MacBook Pro and a J2ME interface for my mobile :)

2 responses so far

2 Responses to “Evernote Gets IE7 Support”

  1. # Phil Libinon 29 Feb 2008 at 11:36 pm

    We may be astute about Windows, but the CEO (that’s me) uses a Mac so the Mac beta is coming in the next couple of weeks! It’s pretty sweet and, naturally, syncs back and forth with the windows, web and mobile versions.

    I wouldn’t characterize our technology stack as a hodge-podge. I prefer to think of it as best-of-breed and carefully selected. My tech guys said they carefully selected it! The web front end is Ajax, the back end servers are mostly Java on Linux. The local clients are all native. The static web site is in a transitional period.

    Thanks for the support!

  2. # gringodon 01 Mar 2008 at 10:49 am

    Hi Phil,

    Thanks for taking the time to respond. I take you point about the technologies. The original post wasn’t meant to be derogatory and have amended it accordingly. I’m actually really stoked about your product and have been waiting for something like this to come along for a long time.

    I’ll be watching and waiting with great expectation,
    Adrian

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