I'd guess workaround #1 is to use Netscape.  Netscape is available on
more platforms than IE, and it works on swikis just great.  We can put a
message to this effect on the "uploads" page.


-Lex


Mark Guzdial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> More people here are reporting problems uploading to Comanche Swiki 
> from the latest versions of Internet Explorer.  Are others finding 
> this problem?  Any fixes?  Any better characterization of the problem 
> (other than the obvious "Microsoft is messing with the standards" :-(?
> 
> We have a problem that one of our heavy Swiki-using departments 
> refuses to put Netscape on their machines, so I'm trying to figure 
> out a fix or a workaround.  I've got hack that we could try -- use 
> Squeak.
> - Build a small Squeak app (maybe from MVC so that Morphic could be 
> thrown away) that would put up a filelist and allow uploading a file 
> to a specified Swiki.
> - Put the app in an image named squeak.image with the app already running.
> - Rename the Squeak VM to something like "UploadToSwiki.exe" and 
> deliver the whole thing to our Windows-using compadres with the 
> instructions to "Just click 'UploadToSwiki'" to upload.
> 
> I haven't tried to get the workaround going yet, though, hoping that 
> someone else has figured out a fix or better workaround.
> 
> Thanks for any advice!
>    Mark
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