* Mathieu Saby (mathieu.s...@univ-rennes2.fr) wrote: > Hi > Do you know what is the share of FF 3.6 and IE 7 in Nigeria, > Philippines, Pakistan or Turkey? > I suppose that people in those countries probably can't afford to > change computers as soon as here... > > By the way, my university is still using Windows XP, so it is not > "dangerous" (but of course we plan to change OS in 2014) > And 1 year ago, the FF standard version insalled on staff computers > was 3.6! (Now it is 10 or 17, I don't remember) > From what I understood (that's not my part ;-) ), using fresher > version of FF was not an easy task for our IT department, because FF > was virtualized, and the older versions are somehow "lighter" than > the recent ones. >
You're right, lets give it another 7 years before we upgrade (october 2006 it was released). Chris PS I wrote this using ae on my machine running linux 1.0. > Mathieu > > > Le 11/12/2013 02:56, Paul A a écrit : > >At 09:59 AM 12/11/2013 +1300, Liz Rea wrote: > > > >>On 11/12/13 05:40, Owen Leonard wrote: > >>>> [4] Upgrade the version of Bootstrap we use to 3.x. > >>> As I mentioned in IRC today the primary caveat for this goal is that > >>> Bootstrap 3 says it "drops support for Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox > >>> 3.6." However, it doesn't explicitly say what "dropping support" > >>> means. If it means broken functionality, that is a problem for us. If > >>> it means graceful degradation, that's more acceptable. I'll be doing > >>> some investigation, but I think we need some opinions from others > >>> about what level of support we need to offer for IE7 and FF 3.6. > >>> > >>> -- Owen > >>> > >>(this is only my opinion, since you asked.) > > > >Mine too (and we're "small" so maybe near the bottom end of the > >relevancy scale.) > > > >>IE 7 is only available in Windows XP, which is due to be end of life in > >>April 2014. > > > >First, I really have no opinion on IE 7 thru 10 -- I do read the > >stats on "market share", and I do have access (for webpage > >verification purposes) of IE8, but that's it... > > > >>Any changes we make for this cycle won't be released until > >>after XP is EOL. [snip] XP is an outdated, and dangerous > >>operating system to be > >>running. > > > >We're all entitled to our opinions and I respect yours. However > >XPPro SP2,[1] properly set up (with a *user* account, never go > >on-line with admin privileges) is not "dangerous." EOL, maybe, > >but I feel that Koha is gaining ground in (excuse me if I'm not > >PC) less developed countries where quite frankly older o/s abound > >for whatever reasons. > > > >Upgrading Koha to deny XP (and I'm not at all sure that's what's > >being proposed) might be cutting off our noses to spite our face. > > > >>It should be noted that it was discovered that bootstrap 3 sites, though > >>not officially supported in FF 3.6, still seem to look and work OK. > > > >For the record, I still have (no time to rebuild) half a dozen > >"kiosks" that run FF3.6 under Win98SE (despite a whole bunch of > >misinformation that it's not possible) -- the Koha OPAC is > >visually perfect (3.8.5 near standard OPAC CSS) and very fast. > >YMMV. > > > >Bottom line: bootstrap 3 is probably the right way to go, and > >sooner rather than later ... but let's not forget that there are > >probably hundreds of thousands, if not potentially millions, of > >KohaOPAC users who are not as "up to date" with their boxes as we > >might be... > > > >Best regards, > >Paul > >[1] I have two boxes running XPPro, installed 2001, upgraded SP2 > >2004 (both running IE8 since 2009). They have never, ever failed > >in 12 years -- "bullet-proof" is a term that comes to mind. Note > >that I have never used Vista, Win7 or Win8. > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Koha-devel mailing list > >Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > >http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > >website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > >git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > >bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ > > > -- > Mathieu Saby > Service d'Informatique Documentaire > Service Commun de Documentation > Université Rennes 2 > Téléphone : 02 99 14 12 65 > Courriel : mathieu.s...@univ-rennes2.fr > > _______________________________________________ > Koha-devel mailing list > Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org > http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel > website : http://www.koha-community.org/ > git : http://git.koha-community.org/ > bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/ -- Chris Cormack Catalyst IT Ltd. +64 4 803 2238 PO Box 11-053, Manners St, Wellington 6142, New Zealand
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
_______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list Koha-devel@lists.koha-community.org http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
