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

[Mathieu Plourde]

Hi guys,

I knew I would take some heat from this thread, it felt old just to initiate
it. Here's what I take from this discussion:

1) If your institution doesn't upgrade too often and doesn't apply patches
as frequently as others, issues will seem like they take forever to get
resolved.
2) There is a growing interest in supporting browsers outside the official
list for obvious reasons.
3) Users are encouraged to report issues for any commonly used browser as
Jira tickets, not only FF and IE.
4) Non-FF/IE issues do get tackled by the community (they do not get swept
under the rug, as I described earlier).

Now, back to my own (troublemaker/non-developer) point of view, I believe
points 3 and 4 need to get out more clearly. Whether it is by making other
browsers "officially" supported is another debate.

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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TOP LINKS:

Technology Troubleshooting: http://www.udel.edu/help
Sakai at UD Support and Training: http://www.udel.edu/sakai/training

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On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Adam Marshall
<adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> The figures are even more interesting in Eurp: Firefox and MSIE are about
> equal on 35% and chrome is 3rd placed with (I think) 15%. There was a nice
> chart in this month’s PC Pro but I couldn’t find it n the web anywhere.
>
>
>
> Out of interest, what are the issues with Safari? Are they listed anywhere?
>
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> adam
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> *From:* sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:
> sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] *On Behalf Of *Mathieu Plourde
> *Sent:* 30 March 2011 19:59
> *To:* Sakai Dev List; Sakai User List
> *Cc:* Nancy O'Laughlin; Karen M. Kral
> *Subject:* [Building Sakai] Support for additional browsers
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>
> Dear fellow Sakaigers,
>
> The use of Mac computers on our campus has grown dramatically over the last
> few years, and as a result many faculty and students would like to be able
> to use the Safari browser when using Sakai. The popularity of all iOS
> devices which rely on Safari also makes a case for making Sakai compatible
> with Sakai. Many features do work successfully in Sakai on this browser, but
> unfortunately there are several instances where unexpected behavior can
> occur and so we are compelled to warn our users, and request that Safari not
> be used with Sakai.
>
> Similarly, Chrome has recently been rated as the third most used browser
> behind Internet Explorer and Firefox. Since Chrome, Safari, and many mobile
> device browsers are based on the Webkit engine, once we make one of them
> compliant, we may find that it is relatively easy to make Sakai work with
> others. [1]
>
> This is not the first time that such a call to action has circulated
> on-list, but we believe that it is time to rethink our Firefox-centric
> approach, not only for Sakai OAE, but for the 2.x branches as well.
>
> Any thoughts or progress on these fronts?
>
> [1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-na-monthly-201003-201103
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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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>
> TOP LINKS:
>
> Technology Troubleshooting: http://www.udel.edu/help
> Sakai at UD Support and Training: http://www.udel.edu/sakai/training
>
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