[Koha-devel] Opac doesn't support IE6 and IE7 (with js enabled). Are we aware of this ?

[David Cook]

I think Chris makes a good point here. Working at a support company, I have to support organizations that use IE 7, but I don’t think we have to officially support IE 7 as a project. I don’t think it makes sense not to upgrade to newer versions of JS libraries just to maintain IE 7 support.

 

However, I don’t necessarily appreciate criticism to patches I post that add IE 7 (or IE 8) support, when the code I target is written by us. In most cases, it’s simple feature detection with a few lines of code and comments stating the purpose and situation.

 

In those cases, it doesn’t bother me if no one tests or QAs those patches. However, I post them because I figure other people are experiencing those same issues and I want to help out. 

 

I suppose you could argue that adding support in limited areas might just draw out the pain longer and reduce incentive to upgrade. That’s fair. If we don’t want to support IE 7 in any capacity at all, I’m happy to keep those patches entirely local. 

 

I’ll also reiterate what Owen said more recently: if you’re going to test Koha in Internet Explorer, it’s best to do it in Internet Explorer. This means doing it on a Windows box or using a Windows VM as provided by Microsoft. Using emulators/testers (especially browser based ones) will often give you false results. Even if you’re using the IE F12 dev tools, you’ll sometimes get incorrect results (depending on what the issue is). So if you want to check Koha’s performance in IE, I’d suggest downloading a VM and running it up in Virtualbox.

 

 

David Cook

Systems Librarian

Prosentient Systems

72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007

 

From: koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org] On Behalf Of Chris Cormack
Sent: Thursday, 2 October 2014 8:04 AM
To: koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org
Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Opac doesn't support IE6 and IE7 (with js enabled). Are we aware of this ?

 

Hi all 

In my opinion, since Microsoft don't support IE7 and also have ended support for windows XP which is what it runs on. We as a project should not put effort into it. 

As a support company we have had to support organisations who use dangerous and old proprietary software, but I don't think it's a burden we have to put on the project as a whole. 

Chris 



On 2 October 2014 10:02:47 am NZDT, Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org <mailto:oleonard at myacpl.org> > wrote:

 to globaly understand the situation I checking JS libs to find
 where we are incompatible with IE6/IE7.


Please don't continue to spend time checking whether we are compatible
with IE6. We do not support IE6.

I encourage others to state their opinion on whether we should support IE7.

  -- Owen


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Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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