Hi James:

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 04:32:22PM +0000, James Wagner wrote:
> I've had several patrons come into the library saying they couldn't access 
> their accounts from their Apple products. Two have been using Safari on their 
> computers, one person was using an iPad 2 (upgraded to 3?), and another 
> person was using their iPhone. The problem is that Evergreen is not showing 
> them the login screen, so they can't put items on hold or see their account 
> information. Could this be an authentication issue?
> 
> Unfortunately, this is not a universal problem. One of my staff used her iPod 
> to log into her account and renew a book, this morning. Her iPod is several 
> years old. Could there be something about newer Apple software that doesn't 
> play nicely with Evergreen?
> 
> We started getting the complaints shortly after we upgraded from 2.2.1 to 
> 2.2.2.

I noticed you're still using the JSPAC, which has huge amounts of
JavaScript and is quite fragile as a result... that's why we switched to
the TPAC as the recommended catalogue as of Evergreen 2.3 (and will be
removing the JSPAC entirely in 2.4). You do have a version of the TPAC
on 2.2 ( https://lincoln.niagaraevergreen.ca/eg/opac/home ) but it is
rather limited in functionality in comparison to the 2.3 edition.

I'm wondering if the problems you're seeing have more to do with
upgrades to iOS and OS X that might have rolled out at the same time as
your Evergreen 2.2.1 -> 2.2.2 upgrade. One of the major problems with
the JSPAC is that we're using a version of a JavaScript library that
dates back several years ans thus doesn't know about the quirks (or even
the existence of) new browser versions. I know that IE 10 breaks on the
JSPAC as well, probably due to the JavaScript library not knowing how to
deal with a two-digit version number for IE.

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