On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Alexandre Augusto <[email protected]> wrote: > Although I ask myself, if web2py should also enforce people to not use > IE6 or it should > have an administrative interface that works cross-browsers
Short answer is no, and no. Here's why. 1. Google discontinued support for IE6 on most of its services, so that's a reason enough for most people to switch to a later version. As a matter of fact, YouTube, ranked 3rd by Alexa, right after Google and Facebook, doesn't support IE6 and displays a rather confusing banner before it allows you to play video. This is reason enough for most IE6 users to look for a way to update or switch. 2. The fix could be as short as 1 line, or as long as a new stylesheet. You never know these things with IE6, and just the time required to find the right solution would already be an overkill for the number of potential users that would benefit from that. 3. As for enforcing IE upgrade, it's also a waste of time. Why waste a second of developer time just to warn less than 1% of users to switch? The reason it's less than 1% (probably closer to 0), and not 5% is that people who use web2py admin interface are mostly developers, and therefore have mostly updated their browsers or use alternative ones (which I suspect is more common). If you're willing to waste time on this, though, I'd suggest trying the ``inline`` fix on all buttons. Buttons use inline-block, and I suspect that's bothering IE6 which was never good with these things. Personally, I don't even start IE6 to see the sites I design nowadays. It creates too much stress. :) -- Branko Vukelić [email protected] [email protected] Check out my blog: http://www.brankovukelic.com/ Check out my portfolio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxbunny/ Registered Linux user #438078 (http://counter.li.org/) I hang out on identi.ca: http://identi.ca/foxbunny Gimp Brushmakers Guild http://bit.ly/gbg-group
