[sakai-core-team] Documentation - double check browser language

[Neal Caidin]

Updated the browser compatibility area:

https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/QA/Sakai+10+Browser+Support



> Matthew Jones <mailto:matthew at longsight.com>
> June 16, 2014 at 8:44 AM
> Yeah right, even in a lab situation they do eventually have plans to 
> have plans at least yearly to upgrade the lab as local software is 
> going to also have security issues. Most schools do that right before 
> the semester starts, so they should have the newest versions of all 
> the software in August (For US schools) which coincides with the Sakai 
> upgrade.
>
> It's generally going to be as easy for most places to upgrade their 
> labs as it is to get a patch created, fixed and applied in their 
> server. And the reality of partial support browsers is that unless the 
> jira has a patch attached it just won't get fixed and eventually just 
> closed as Won't Fix, since it's not worth the time to downgrade 
> browsers figure out the problem. (especially when it's often bug in 
> the browser)
>
> Anyway, I think this section is finally getting less important since 
> Microsoft no longer supports Windows XP/IE 8 anymore. That really was 
> the browser that caused most of the backward compatibility problems.
>
>
>
> Neal Caidin <mailto:neal.caidin at apereo.org>
> June 16, 2014 at 8:31 AM
> Except for lab configurations which I hear about sometimes in some 
> institutions, in which it may be beyond the influence of a Sakai 
> administrator to get the browsers upgraded. The labs are locked down 
> tight by central IT or a departmental IT.  I'm not sure how pervasive 
> this problem is.
>
> It would seem like it would be more work for IT administrators to 
> support old software that becomes less compatible over time and with 
> more security holes?
>
> -- Neal
>
>
>
> Matthew Jones <mailto:matthew at longsight.com>
> June 16, 2014 at 8:26 AM
> Yeah, I bump the "file any bugs line"  up to be under supported, and 
> even bump the "We encourage you to upgrade" line up to partial support.
>
> There's really no reason anyone should be running a browser old than 
> the ones we are supporting today or at least not considering a local 
> upgrade.
>
>
>
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> Steve Swinsburg <mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>
> June 16, 2014 at 7:16 AM
>
> That was just an off the top of my head example. Some footnotes would 
> be good for the definitions. Maybe the following draft words:
>
> Supported would be "We have performed extensive QA using these 
> browsers. Our developers use these browsers every day and test against 
> them, and our QA team focus their efforts on testing in these browsers."
>
> Partial support could be "We have only performed limited QA on this 
> release with these browsers. Some features may not work 100%. Please 
> file any bugs at jira.sakaiproject.org <http://jira.sakaiproject.org>".
>
> Unsupported could be: "We have not performed any QA on this release 
> using these browser. Any bugs discovered using these browsers will not 
> be fixed. We encourage you to upgrade your browser as the first step 
> towards resolution".
>
>
>
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> Matthew Buckett <mailto:matthew.buckett at it.ox.ac.uk>
> June 16, 2014 at 4:40 AM
>
> I like the nice short lists. Could we have a footnote about what they 
> mean?
>
> Does partial support mean we have features that don't work or that we
> don't test and so it might all work but we don't know.
> Does unsupported mean it might work, but we won't fix it if it doesn't?
>

-- 
Neal Caidin
Sakai Community Coordinator
Apereo Foundation
neal.caidin at apereo.org
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