[Building Sakai] Support for additional browsers

[Speelmon, Lance]

Sorry if you have heard me say this before, but as a community we should not be talking about which browsers are "supported" - we do not provide support.  As already stated, bugs get reported against browser x.y.z and bugs get fixed.  Instead, we should be talking about which browsers were used to QA a release and thus how much capacity QA has to test N number of browsers.

I am fine with local institutions and commercial partners framing the discussion around support - that is what they do.  As a community, we should be transparent about the QA process and which browsers were used in testing.  WDYT?  Thanks, L

On Mar 30, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Mathieu Plourde wrote:

Dear fellow Sakaigers,

The use of Mac computers on our campus has grown dramatically over the last few years, and as a result many faculty and students would like to be able to use the Safari browser when using Sakai. The popularity of all iOS devices which rely on Safari also makes a case for making Sakai compatible with Sakai. Many features do work successfully in Sakai on this browser, but unfortunately there are several instances where unexpected behavior can occur and so we are compelled to warn our users, and request that Safari not be used with Sakai.

Similarly, Chrome has recently been rated as the third most used browser behind Internet Explorer and Firefox. Since Chrome, Safari, and many mobile device browsers are based on the Webkit engine, once we make one of them compliant, we may find that it is relatively easy to make Sakai work with others. [1]

This is not the first time that such a call to action has circulated on-list, but we believe that it is time to rethink our Firefox-centric approach, not only for Sakai OAE, but for the 2.x branches as well.

Any thoughts or progress on these fronts?

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-na-monthly-201003-201103

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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

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