[Building Sakai] 2.9.x Browsers Supported, curious

[Poindexter, David Ray]

As I suspected, Current and n-1 is standard here with Sakai (as with most other apps).

Now here's the next question… given that IE9 is supported, and it does NOT natively (without html5 shiv) support the most popular HTML5 (pronounced HOOCH-MALL-FIVE, I'm kidding) elements, what is our plan going forward?

We have a few options, but I think this discussion has merit:


  1.  Ignore trends, stay with, GASP, XHTML transitional (it is 2013, last I checked), and just make stuff work for as long as we can hold on…, or
  2.  Go crazy and say "HTML5 ALL THE THINGS", which, I know my leadership would freak out, or
  3.  Gradually start introducing more semantic markup into existing tools, and setting some kind of standards for new tools.

I like option 3 the best, obviously. But I'm just a guy. And not really a very smart or skilled guy. So, can any tool authors, functional testers, or management types chime in on the two issues of:


  1.  Can we do this? And,
  2.  2.9.x was just released, and the goal is moving forward… how can we justify our legacy code?

Cheers,
--
David Poindexter
Systems Analyst
Enterprise Student Systems
UITS
Indiana University
535 West Michigan Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5157
O: 317.274.8686
W: http://uits.iu.edu<http://uits.iu.edu/>

From: Neal Caidin <nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org<mailto:nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org>>
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013 7:17 PM
To: David Poindexter <davpoind at iupui.edu<mailto:davpoind at iupui.edu>>
Cc: Sakai Dev <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org<mailto:sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>>
Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] 2.9.x Browsers Supported, curious

If you look on https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/Sakai+CLE+2.9+release+notes#SakaiCLE29releasenotes-Browsercompatibility

you will see it says "Sakai CLE is designed to work with modern browsers. You should be safe with the latest versions of Firefox (Mozilla), Safari (Apple), Chrome (Google), and with IE 9 (Microsoft Internet Explorer aka IE) and IE 8. Sakai CLE does not work with IE 7 and earlier nor with Firefox 10 and earlier."

If something is not working with IE 9, please report it through Jira.

Cheers,

Neal Caidin

Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org<mailto:nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org>
Skype: nealkdin
AIM: ncaidin at aol.com<mailto:ncaidin at aol.com>





On Apr 11, 2013, at 7:09 PM, "Poindexter, David Ray" <davpoind at iupui.edu<mailto:davpoind at iupui.edu>> wrote:

So, where is the official list of browsers supported by 2.9.0+?

There's a lot of pre-IE9 stuff in Sakai, and I'm curious whether it's actually supposed to be there or not. We, IU, are supporting (Current major version) + (N-1) of Chrome, Firefox, and IE.

What say you?
--
David Poindexter
Systems Analyst
Enterprise Student Systems
UITS
Indiana University
535 West Michigan Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5157
O: 317.274.8686
W: http://uits.iu.edu<http://uits.iu.edu/>
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