[Geomoose-users] Who here is still supporting IE7?

[James Klassen]

{Rant: "Second that.  I remember historically that fixing and working
around IE quirks took about 75% of development/debug time.  It has been
better lately with Dojo and newer IE versions, but it is still occasionally
annoying."}
On May 3, 2013 8:34 AM, "Bistrais, Bob" <Bob.Bistrais at maine.gov> wrote:

>  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.****
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> (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.****
>
> Unfortunately, it’s not up to me.****
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> *From:* geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Mark Volz
> *Sent:* Friday, May 03, 2013 9:25 AM
> *To:* Dan Little; GeoMOOSE Users List
> *Subject:* Re: [Geomoose-users] Who here is still supporting IE7?****
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> Dan,****
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> 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.****
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> Mark****
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> *From:* geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [
> mailto:geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org<geomoose-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>]
> *On Behalf Of *Dan Little
> *Sent:* Friday, May 03, 2013 7:50 AM
> *To:* GeoMOOSE Users List
> *Subject:* [Geomoose-users] Who here is still supporting IE7?****
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> 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.
> ****
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> http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combined-US-monthly-201302-201304-bar
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> 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.  ****
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> Thanks all for any feedback.****
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