[xymon] OK to drop IE6 support in 4.3.0 ?

[jef.jagers at thomsonreuters.com]

More and more companies, like google and youtube to name a few, are not supporting IE6 anymore, so it would be logic to follow.

There are also a lot of other reasons why somebody shouldn't use IE6 anymore:
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/191356/its_time_to_finally_drop_internet_explorer_6.html


So I totally agree in setting the minimal requirement to IE7


Regards, 
Jef Jagers
Systems Engineer
Thomson CompuMark

Thomson Reuters

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-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Størner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
Sent: vrijdag, oktober 22, 2010 08:55
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [xymon] OK to drop IE6 support in 4.3.0 ?

I'm having some issues that I'd like a wider input on. So although
there are probably far too many opinions, I am asking this in a
wider audience than just the Xymon developer group.

The current menu-system in Xymon is not quite "Open Source" enough
for some - the licensing has always been a bit unclear (see the README
file in the ~xymon/server/www/menu/ if you doubt that). Therefore 
it would be nice to replace it with something else, and the Debian
people have provided a replacement based on CSS and plain HTML 4.

This did break a couple of other things, but I think we have that
sorted out by now.

The only remaining issue is: It doesn't work in Internet Explorer 6.
IE 7, IE 8, Firefox, Konqueror all look fine.

Since IE 7 is ok and this is available for Windows XP, I am mostly
inclined to ignore the problems with IE6. It will be possible to
install the old menu system on top of the new Xymon release, but
it would be an extra download and some manual work to do. But 
possible, if you must live with IE 6.

So - would it be OK to do this, and require IE7 as a minimum?


Regards,
Henrik


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