[Using Sakai] [Building Sakai] Support for additional browsers

[David C. Minugh]

Dear Mathieu,

    Your screenshot is pretty much the sort of thing we 
need to know, but it's post hoc: "you can't see Sakai 
because you've trying to use browser X (version Y)". I 
was thinking of an early-warning, "Don't install 
browser X (version Y) yet, because we're not yet able 
to fully support it". This seems to be the current case 
for IE9, which has been available for several weeks 
already.
    But I do want to emphasize that I see it as the 
individual school's job to warn their students and 
staff away from upgrading to versions with known blockers.


On 2011-04-01 15:58, Mathieu Plourde wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Blockers for each release are listed in Jira, but the 
> end-user wouldn't know that.
>
> We have had issues with Chrome and Safari users since 
> the very beginning. This year, we decided to add a 
> warning prompt for users of these browsers (see 
> screenshot). We didn't get too much pushback so far.
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathplourde/5579097179/
>
> So this is an example of an early warning system as 
> implemented institutionally at the University of 
> Delaware. Is that what you had in mind? This is 
> something that's really easy to deploy and that seems 
> to have cut down of browser-related issues for us.
>
> Mathieu

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