I like the principal of having officially supported browsers, but wonder about the implementation details. Doesn't supporting only the latest single non-beta version of the YUI listed browsers imply that every release of the uPortal framework or official channels and portlets needs to be tested against 18 combinations of browsers and OSs as listed at YUI? And every time a new release of one of the 5 listed browsers comes out, all of the framework, channels and portlets need to be re-tested against the new browser release? Perhaps I'm mis-interpreting what "support" means, but if not, I am wondering how continuing support for changing browser and OS releases would be assured.
Paul Gazda Senior Web Developer Information Technology Services Northern Arizona University [EMAIL PROTECTED] (928) 523-6844 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Petro Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 11:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [uportal-dev] uPortal policy on supported web browsers uPortal developers, I'd like to see the project adopt a policy about what web browsers uPortal supports. Fortunately, the Yahoo YUI folks have an A-grade browser policy that I think[1] tracks very well with what uPortal support ought to be. Making the policy that of supporting YUI-graded A-grade browsers has some very nice properties in that they keep the list up to date and so uPortal will have a go-to, commonly respected, external criteria rather than dithering internally about which browsers to support. I've drafted a policy statement in the uPortal manuals: uP3 manual: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/LYKi uP2 manual: http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/x/LIKi I'd like for one of two things to happen: 1) A flurry of +1s and "huzzahs" sufficient to adopt this browser support policy, so that we have one, making the project more marketable and setting a path. 2) responses leading to discussion that brings us to an even better policy statement, for which we can then have (1). Thanks, Andrew [1]: Thanks are due to Colin Clark, the rest of uPortal steering committee, and Gary Thompson in helping me to become informed enough to think about this. -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - "Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way!" April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev -- Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG 2008 - "Higher Education Solutions: The Community Source Way!" April 27th - 30th, 2008 in St. Paul, Minnesota USA Featuring CAS, DSpace, Fedora, Fluid, Internet2, Kuali, Sakai, uPortal, and more! Information/Registration at: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/08spring/index.html You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, change settings or access archives, see http://www.ja-sig.org/wiki/display/JSG/uportal-dev
