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

[Zeno Tajoli]

Hi Owen and all,

Il 01/10/2014 23:02, Owen Leonard ha scritto:
>> 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.

In fact I missed to see that we use bootstrap 2.x in Opac and Intranet 
that is compatible with IE7 but not with IE6:

-- 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18600914/bootstrap-2-or-bootstrap-3-for-ie-7-performance-wise
-- http://bootstrapdocs.com/v1.1.0/docs/#about

So the point is: "Should we support IE7 ?".

The question for me rise from the update of DataTables jQuery plugin,
bug 12986 <http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=12986>

In Opac the plugin is used in the include datatables.inc that is present
in many templates in the [% BLOCK jsinclude %]

$ grep -r 'jquery.dataTables.min.js' *
bootstrap/en/includes/datatables.inc:<script type="text/javascript" 
src="[% interface %]/lib/jquery/plugins/jquery.dataTables.min.js"></script>

$ grep -r 'datatables.inc' *
en/modules/opac-basket.tt:        [% INCLUDE 'datatables.inc' %]
en/modules/opac-detail.tt:[% INCLUDE 'datatables.inc' %]
en/modules/opac-full-serial-issues.tt:[% INCLUDE 'datatables.inc' %]
en/modules/opac-search-history.tt:[% INCLUDE 'datatables.inc' %]
en/modules/opac-suggestions.tt:[% INCLUDE 'datatables.inc' %]
en/modules/opac-tags.tt:[% INCLUDE 'datatables.inc' %]
en/modules/opac-topissues.tt:[% INCLUDE 'datatables.inc' %]
en/modules/opac-user.tt:    [% INCLUDE 'datatables.inc' %]
en/modules/sco/sco-main.tt:    [% INCLUDE 'datatables.inc' %]


So if we do this update in Opac and in Intranet, we will have 
incompatiblies with IE7.

For me is OK to drop support for IE7 in Opac and Intranet.

For me it is accettable to drop IE7 only in Intranet and mantain it in Opac.

Update in bug 12986 is necessary for Intranet (Acq)

Bye
Zeno Tajoli


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