[xymon] OK to drop IE6 support in 4.3.0 ?

[Vernon Everett]

Hi Henrik

>From what I can see, the current IE6 user base is down to 5.6%, and
dropping.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_explorer.asp
Time for that 5.6% to wake up to reality.

I have no hard evidence for this, but I believe that most of the people on
this list are smart technical people, who understand the valid criticism and
risks of IE6, and are probably already doing their best to avoid it.

That being said, there are still a bunch of companies (my current employer
included) who still demand IE6 on the desktop because they have some
stone-age application that just don't work without the bugs in IE6.
Fortunately, there is Firefox or Portable Apps for when I end up at a client
with locked-down desktops.
I recommend it to those of you stuck with IE6. http://portableapps.com/

And of course, as mentioned by others, if Google can dump it, why not Xymon.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/188238/google_yanks_ie6_support.html

Just my $0.02

Cheers
    Vernon


On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

> 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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