[Building Sakai] Fwd: IE 9 has been released

Adrian Fish a.fish at lancaster.ac.uk
Wed Mar 16 05:28:59 PDT 2011


We're recommending Firefox to our users. This is a bummer for 2.7.x 
institutions.

On 15/03/2011 22:55, Matthew Jones wrote:
> Also, I'm not sure what version of CKEditor was implemented for 2.8 
> but on 16 Feb 2011 they released a special version of CKEditor because 
> of IE9 as well. So that code may need some updates (or the 
> compatibility mode fix also)
>
> http://ckeditor.com/blog/CKEditor_3.5.2_released
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Mathieu Plourde <mathieu at udel.edu 
> <mailto:mathieu at udel.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Hi guys,
>
>     I have confirmed that this bug is present in our Sakai instance
>     for users of IE9 at Delaware (2.6.3). I made the the following
>     screenshots for anyone to use.
>
>     Freezed up: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathplourde/5529392273/
>
>     Compatibility mode enabled:
>     http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathplourde/5529980226/
>
>     Mathieu
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>
>     Mathieu Plourde, MBA
>     Project Leader, LMS/Instructional Designer
>     IT-Client Support & Services
>     mathieu at udel.edu <mailto:mathieu at udel.edu>
>     Office: 302-831-4060 <tel:302-831-4060>
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>     TOP LINKS:
>
>     Technology Troubleshooting: http://www.udel.edu/help
>     Sakai at UD Support and Training: http://www.udel.edu/sakai/training
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>
>
>
>     On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Matthew Jones <jonespm at umich.edu
>     <mailto:jonespm at umich.edu>> wrote:
>
>         Well, I was briefly testing it out with the final release of IE9.
>
>         The "good news" is that the FCKEditor does come up, so at
>         least the text areas are usable. The bad news is that almost
>         everything that pops up a window freezes the browser. So this
>         is not a good thing. Compatibility mode fixes this.
>
>         I might continue to briefly look at it but our best fix will
>         be to patch in that meta tag. I'll add it in so it can be set
>         via property (which version to emulate) or disabled if
>         desired. By default we'd probably have it configured to
>         emulate IE8.
>
>         1 minute screen cast demoing the FCK bug in the current
>         version of IE9.
>         http://www.screencast.com/users/jonespm/folders/Jing/media/030b170e-87f1-4b1f-a337-fb00cfd08bab
>
>         -Matthew
>
>
>         On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Berg, Alan <A.M.Berg at uva.nl
>         <mailto:A.M.Berg at uva.nl>> wrote:
>
>             I plan QA to test IE 9 in the coming days.  I have already
>             suggested to Rob and Corey to focuss the next test fests
>             in this direction.
>
>             Matthews compatability patch seems the way to go in the
>             short term. If that gets in before the next RC we may have
>             just about enough run up time to verify.
>
>             Alan
>
>             Alan Berg
>             QA Director - The Sakai Foundation
>
>             Senior Developer / Quality Assurance
>             Group Education and Research Services
>             Central Computer Services
>             University of Amsterdam
>             ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>             *From:* sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
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>             [sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org
>             <mailto:sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org>] on
>             behalf of Matthew Jones [jonespm at umich.edu
>             <mailto:jonespm at umich.edu>]
>             *Sent:* 15 March 2011 16:01
>             *To:* markjnorton at earthlink.net
>             <mailto:markjnorton at earthlink.net>
>             *Cc:* sakai-dev
>             *Subject:* Re: [Building Sakai] Fwd: IE 9 has been released
>
>             Yea, I saw the announcement last night. The IE9 release
>             candidate completely broke FCKEditor and they weren't
>             expected to fix it. This would make anything earlier than
>             2.8 (since 2.8 had a CKEditor option) mostly unusable by
>             default. I was going to find a Windows 7 machine today
>             (since it won't install in XP) and see if there are still
>             these big problems. If they weren't fixed in the final
>             release is we'd probably need to patch in a IE8
>             compatibility patch for all of the releases that are using
>             this editor.
>
>             https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-20058
>
>             -Matthew
>
>             On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Mark Norton
>             <markjnorton at earthlink.net
>             <mailto:markjnorton at earthlink.net>> wrote:
>
>                 This seems to be worth cross-posting.  Hopefully it
>                 doesn't complicated the QA work on Sakai 2.8.0.
>
>                 - Mark
>
>                 -------- Original Message --------
>                 Subject: 	IE 9 has been released
>                 Date: 	Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:04:03 -0400
>                 From: 	Justin Obara <obara.justin at gmail.com>
>                 <mailto:obara.justin at gmail.com>
>                 To: 	fluid-work Work <fluid-work at fluidproject.org>
>                 <mailto:fluid-work at fluidproject.org>
>
>
>
>                 Internet Explorer 9 was just officially released.
>                 http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/presskits/internetexplorer/
>
>                 This means that as of Infusion 1.4 we will be tracking it as an a-grade browser in Windows 7. I've upgraded our browser support chart to reflect this.
>                 http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Browser+Support+Chart
>
>                 Please make sure that you are periodically testing with IE 9. Also please ensure that any pre-release versions of IE 9 are upgraded to the latest stable release.
>
>                 Thanks
>                 Justin
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