[Koha] Should Koha support old versions of Internet Explorer?

[Arslan Farooq]

Hi Owen,

I think our developers' time is precious and should not be wasted on
supporting IE6 or IE7. If some organization wants to use the said versions
and want to use the latest version of Koha, then they can pay for support.
They can't have it both ways.

As you know (being a web developer) that these IEs are not standards
compliant browsers and have all kinds of strange quirks and idiotic
behaviors. It's a nightmare to make modern web technologies work on these
browsers properly.


> - In your use of Koha are you required to use any version of Internet
> Explorer and if so what version?
>

No. And today's users have their smartphones and laptops; and a library's
PCs are there and it takes few clicks to install Firefox, Chrome or any
other decent browser.

I can imagine some environments may have restrictions in place to not let
users install programs. And for that, anyone can keep a portable version of
Firefox http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable in a usb
flash disk / or copy on a PC.

Basically where there is a will there is a way. It makes no sense to me
that any sane developer would waste his life (life is just a sum of
moments, minutes, hours we have) on IE6 IE7 quirks.


> - In your use of Koha do you work with library patrons who are
> required to use any version of Internet Explorer?
>

No.


> - In your opinion what should be the minimum supported version of
> Internet Explorer?
>
>
If you are bored and want to amuse yourself, then perhaps some IE8 support.
No lower.

Arslan
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