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

[Viktor.Sarge at regionhalland.se]

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

I work with a library required to use IE9 on Win7.

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

I don’t know what they are requried to use, but fact is that IE7 is 8% of the visits since may. Not a single IE6 though which at least is something...

- In your opinion what should be the minimum supported version of
Internet Explorer?

Yes - the one that patrons of Koha-libraries actually use. WinXP is (sadly) still alive and well. It does suck that IE6 and 7 is still alive, but if it’s possible to degrade gracefully I’d be glad. If we do decide to drop support for older browsers I’d suggest notifying the opac users with some kind of alert that it’s an insecure version and no longer supported which is why they will loose functionality.

At the same time I do agree with Arslan that sinking time and money into the quirks of IE is not the best use of resources. Maybe Joel is on to something with a LTS-version? Even if every sane web developer hates IE we still have to strike some kind of working balance between getting stuff done and keeping in mind that in the end our job is to support library patrons. And some of them will run Pentium 4 machines they got from their grandchildren… (the horror)

(Maybe a huge sign on the Opac saying ”We’ll send someone to upgrade your web browser if you give us a call!” for all IE6 and IE7 users? :)

Kind regards/Viktor


3 okt 2014 kl. 23:35 skrev Riley Childs <rchilds at cucawarriors.com<mailto:rchilds at cucawarriors.com>>:

If MS doesn't support it why should we?

Riley Childs
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Charlotte United Christian Academy
Library Services Administrator
IT Services
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Subject: Re: [Koha] Should Koha support old versions of Internet Explorer?

Hello 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.



- 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 our 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 on 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 if 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.

Well above are my opinions.

Arslan

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