I know it "hasn't happened yet", "might not happen", and if it "did
happen" we should have time to react to it before it causes us a problem...
However, I wonder about the Microsoft bid for Yahoo and if Microsoft
does acquire Yahoo, what they will think about that list. Is there an
equivalent out there, that isn't so close to being swallowed by one of
the vendors with a vested interest in the list?
But "+1" for a list in general.
---- Cris J H
Andrew Petro wrote:
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.
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