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

[Mathieu Plourde]

Hi David,

I agree with your statement. You could probably use the same popup principle
to notify your users when a new browser version comes up not to upgrade
right away, with a link to download to the most recent locally certified
version.

I'll let other folks jump in with info about the status of QA for specific
browser versions.

Mathieu
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Mathieu Plourde, MBA
Project Leader, LMS/Instructional Designer
IT-Client Support & Services
mathieu at udel.edu
Office: 302-831-4060

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On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:30 AM, David C. Minugh <David.Minugh at english.su.se
> wrote:

> 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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