[Building Sakai] 2.9.x Browsers Supported, curious

[Poindexter, David Ray]

That is a valid consideration, and I'm sure others (way above my pay grade) considered that when putting out 2.9.x.

Checking the user agent could be a very valid fallback method, and I encourage you to continue with your efforts.

That said, for institutions who choose to accept the stated browser support level, as defined in the document that Neal linked to, I don't think we need to consider any IE6 users moving forward. Fallbacks have a place, don't get me wrong, but IE6 is the definition of legacy code, and the rest of the people should not be held back due to one demographic, IMHO.

Just take a look at your graphic. You'd be better served to rip out any IE6/7/8 legacy code from Sakai trunk, and leave it to people like yourself to maintain "alternative branches" for a certain demographic.

IMHO, we need to move Sakai forward, not regress. And my question is about the former while simultaneously acknowledging the unfortunate needs of the latter.

Interestingly, I had figured that IE6 would be actually larger than 25% in China. I need to re-evaluate my info source. Cheers!
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From: Gao Jun <gaojun at fudan.edu.cn<mailto:gaojun at fudan.edu.cn>>
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013 7:59 PM
To: 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

Unfortunately, IE6 has 25% usage in China now [1]. When we updated Sakai from 2.8 to 2.9 about a month ago, we found many users couldn't use Sakai friendly.
In my university, especially in some public computer lab, IE6 is the default web browser. And the lab administrator is too lazy to update it.
So, we have to change the code to meet this situation.
Sakai will check every request, and read the User-Agent head. If it's an IE6 browser, the defaultskin would be rendered, otherwise, the neo-skin is rendered.
I think this method could be used to handle other situation of lagacy browsers.
I'll post the solution to JIRA after some code arrangement.

[1] http://www.ie6countdown.com/


于 2013年04月12日 07:17, Neal Caidin 写道:
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>
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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?
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