[Koha-bugs] [Bug 26305] Warn IE users of Staff Interface that it is no longer supported and to use a supported browser instead

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https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26305

--- Comment #8 from David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au> ---
(In reply to Marcel de Rooy from comment #7)
> Ten years ago we couldnt use the staff client either with Internet Explorer.

That's not correct. I've supported Internet Explorer for Koha for about 8.5
years now. I've contributed a few patches to Koha to provide Internet Explorer
support over the years. 

> You speak here about "not .. anymore" and "transitional time". I dont
> understand. What happened? Where are you referring to? Which transition?

Microsoft will no longer support Internet Explorer for their own apps like
Office 365 starting from November 2020. 

> Shouldnt we speak about "Does not support" ?
> Until now we 'tolerated' use of IE like "on your own risk". Do we really
> need an agressive banner like the one here?

I don't think it's aggressive. Quite the opposite. I think it's user-friendly.
It improves UX, since users will see the problem is their browser, rather than
the problem being a broken Koha. 

As I noted above, I'm constantly getting complaints from people saying that
Koha is broken in the staff interface, even after I tell them they can't use
Internet Explorer anymore (before 19.11 they could still use IE 11). 

So I will be applying a patch like like locally very soon, but I figured I'd
contribute it back to the community, as I'm sure other people will be having
this same issue.

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