On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 03:37:09PM -0600, Graham Allan wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 08:48:44AM -0800, Yasha Karant wrote:
>  
> > The other issue is "compatibility".  The university insists on
> > certain specific web based applications, including proprietary
> > Blackboard and a specialized Oracle PeopleSoft application called
> > the Common Management System (CMS).  Is there a means to verify that
> > the current ESR release meets the requirements of these
> > applications?
> 


You put the horse behind the cart. It is the university-supplied applications
that are supposed to be compatible with the browsers used by university users.

Not the other way round.

And it is the applications people who are supposed to be testing their
applications for compatibility with supported browsers. And the list
of supported browsers should be negotiated between the two parties.

That is how it should be in a sane world.

In the world where you, as a user and a stakeholder, permit the applications
people to dictate everything, one would be forever stuck with netscape 1.0,
and forget about iphone and ipad, never mind linux.

Yasha, why don't you move to some less crazy university? Vote with your feet.


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