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<div class="gmail_quote">On May 3, 2013 8:34 AM, "Bistrais, Bob" <<a href="mailto:Bob.Bistrais@maine.gov">Bob.Bistrais@maine.gov</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I agree with Mark. I’ve come up against this issue in the past. We’ve had customers who were still using old versions of IE in order to support another application
of some sort (non-GeoMoose). We found in that case, the solution was to let them keep their old version of IE, but recommend installing another browser (FF, Chrome) and use that with our GeoMoose applications. That seems to work fine.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">(Rant alert…) If it were up to me, I’d say we shouldn’t support IE at all, because it’s by far the most troublesome of the major browsers.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Unfortunately, it’s not up to me.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:geomoose-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">geomoose-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:geomoose-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">geomoose-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Mark Volz<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 03, 2013 9:25 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Dan Little; GeoMOOSE Users List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Geomoose-users] Who here is still supporting IE7?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Dan,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">In my opinion everyone that uses IE should be on IE 8 or above. I don’t think that you and the other developers should waste a lot of time dealing with quirks
from old browsers. But for those that are still running an old version of IE, perhaps GeoMOOSE could display a pop up window that invites users to upgrade IE, or redirect them to an older version of GeoMOOSE that does support IE 6-7.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Mark<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
<a href="mailto:geomoose-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">geomoose-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a> [<a href="mailto:geomoose-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">mailto:geomoose-users-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan Little<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 03, 2013 7:50 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> GeoMOOSE Users List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Geomoose-users] Who here is still supporting IE7?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">FOSS4G/NA will allow for us to do some direction planning and legacy browser support is a subject upon which I intend to tackle this year.
Legacy support with IE is causing us problems with IE10. Some of the feature-sniffing code in IE10 makes things *very* difficult and newer versions of our base libraries that support IE10 tend to break IE6/7/FF<3.6.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combined-US-monthly-201302-201304-bar" target="_blank">http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combined-US-monthly-201302-201304-bar</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">If you value GeoMOOSE simply BECAUSE of IE6/7 support then we'll need to hear from you. Another motivating factor: I cannot seem to *buy* a version of Windows
that will run IE7 anymore. My only functioning windows install is Win7 and I believe I've got it upgraded to IE10 at this point, for testing purposes. I'm going to try and setup a down-grade VM for IE9 testing along with some automation. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thanks all for any feedback.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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