[Building Sakai] 2.9.x Browsers Supported, curious

[Steve Swinsburg]

Microsoft themselves urge people to not use IE6. We should not be wasting
time supporting it (I know I have in the past). If you want to run
unsupported browsers, you need to shoulder the risk.

Its simple to upgrade browsers these days, and if an IT department is
managing software installations and preventing people from upgrading
themselves, it is their responsibility to stay on top of this. Even running
IE7 is irresponsible IMO.

cheers,
Steve


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Poindexter, David Ray
<davpoind at iupui.edu>wrote:

>   As a followup, you need to evaluate your own stats instead of relying
> on what China as a whole is doing.
>
>  I'm not saying that you're wrong; however, I'm saying that looking at
> global stats is very misleading when trying to determine what browsers you
> need to support.
>
>  And again I reiterate that what YOU need to support may not necessarily
> be in the best interest of the rest of the globe, and perhaps there is a
> more local solution for your situation? A routing rule or local
> customization you can maintain, perhaps?
>
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>   From: Gao Jun <gaojun at fudan.edu.cn>
> Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013 7:59 PM
> To: Sakai Dev <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
> Skype: nealkdin
> AIM: ncaidin at aol.com
>
>
>
>
>
>  On Apr 11, 2013, at 7:09 PM, "Poindexter, David Ray" <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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