http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/19450/
[11 votes] Solution #3: Borrow IE dev maneuver and alert users to preferred browsers


[5 votes] Solution #4: Fix It!


]]> en-us Sun, 26 Apr 2009 15:00:08 +0000 Sat, 09 May 2009 18:23:02 +0000 QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/19450/ Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:10:09 +0000 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:54:16 +0000
Solution 2 - I'm typing this from work, where I'm not allowed to install software on my computer so I have to use IE, therefore, Firefox is not always the solution.]]> Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:09:05 +0000 Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:04:50 +0000
I also had the same problem few weeks ago. I used Ubuntu notebook that was not part of the internet network, but I had some old Windows computer that was using IE6 and when I got some idea on ubuntu I tried to share it with Windows IE6 browser and got a surprise - non-working brainstorm in IE6.

It was not a big problem at all, I just connected to internet with computer using IE7 and report an idea.

Probably #1 is not a bad idea. Just check the browser version and display something like "Please use newer version of Internet Explorer" or "Your browser is too old to correctly display this web page" or something like that.]]> Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:19:07 +0000 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:23:01 +0000
And in defence of my controversial statement ("Take that, IE elitist developers...") and as a long time (ten year) Opera user, it's about time someone turned the tables on developers who write pages for a broken browser (IE) and then advise users not using that specific broken browser (IE) that they would be better off using a broken browser (IE). The difference in this stance which I propose would be that we would be promoting two browsers which are not broken and which are very much standards-compliant.]]> Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:14:31 +0000
This idea have the right to exist, if you disagree, please vote down. If you want to let a constructive comment (positive or not), please post it. But saying to other people that they are idiot is a good exemple of what is not tolerated. Thanks.]]> Mon, 04 May 2009 20:12:13 +0000
If you can't install anything on your work Win-based machine, what are you doing on Ubuntu's website instead of working, in the first place?

Second, the best solution would be putting a browser detection script when entering Ubuntu Brainstorm, which would basically say something like:
"This website won't display correctly in the browser you're using (Name browser here) because it's not standards compliant.

For best results, download an updated version of browser (name browser here) from website (link to the exact page here).

Click here to continue without updating"

Hotmail puts out such a page when one tries to access their page with a browser that's not officially supported. But the good point is, it's slightly annoying, but one can easily make one more click to go past this warning page.]]> Sat, 09 May 2009 18:23:02 +0000