[xymon] OK to drop IE6 support in 4.3.0 ?

[Jerald Sheets]

Don't forget Safari.  It's 100% ACID compliant, so I don't see an issue, but I'd be happy to test.

SysAdmins are starting to pick up Macbook Pros in droves.  The last UNIX meeting I spoke for, more than half were on MacBooks and a little less than half of those were still running Mac OS X.  I've also noticed an increasing number of developers on Macs as well.  It's the only platform you can buy that you can run all commercial and OpenSource OSes   (Linux, Windows, and Mac) on all at once.  (i.e., one purchase, multiple platforms)

I'm happy to offer the testing for that, should we decide to go that route.

Oh, and "yeah".  Kill IE6.

--Jerald


On Oct 22, 2010, at 2:55 AM, Henrik Størner 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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