[Building Sakai] 2.9.x Browsers Supported, curious

[Gao Jun]

In my own stats, some computer courses use the public computer labs
which are out of my control.

Nearly 20%-50% Sakai online users use IE6 when there is a such course
take place.

IE6 is evil in my opinion, but as a maintainer, I cannot ignore these
users' feeling.

BTW, an alternative solution is set up a tomcat node with default skin
and use Apache to filter the requests. This solution doesn't need a lot
code modification.


于 2013年04月12日 08:11, Poindexter, David Ray 写道:
> 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?
>
> --
>
> 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: 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>
>> 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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> -- 
> Gao Jun
> Fudan University


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Gao Jun
Fudan University

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