[Building Sakai] 2.9.x Browsers Supported, curious

[Steve Swinsburg]

The portal already checks user agent via mobile-detect to see if they should be sent to /pda, so this would be pretty simple to do if you wanted to. Note you need to change the templates and skin. 

Cheers Steve 

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On 12/04/2013, at 10:55, "Poindexter, David Ray" <davpoind at iupui.edu> wrote:

> I'd be curious to see this code modification and how you will set up the default routing to a skin based on user agent, if only out of curiosity.
> 
> 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
> 
> From: Gao Jun <gaojun at fudan.edu.cn>
> Date: Thursday, April 11, 2013 8:25 PM
> To: David Poindexter <davpoind at iupui.edu>
> Cc: Sakai Dev <sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org>
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] 2.9.x Browsers Supported, curious
> 
> 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
>> 
>> 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?
>>>> --
>>>> 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
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