http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/19450/
[27 votes] Solution #1: Use Browsesad/black and white for IE versions earlier then 8


[10 votes] Solution #3: Borrow IE dev maneuver and alert users to preferred browsers


[6 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
@wit3K. I tried submitting an idea using my mates work laptop, where firefox and such cannot be installed. Its not like I am requesting the code is fixed to support IE5. I'm simply asking for a friggen warning to be put.


Whatever though. By the sounds of things though, a lot of you have lost the plot. Some of you guys have become so consumed with hating Microsoft that its defining you, and affecting your judgement, as I believe it has yours wit3k.

Especially as this ONLY affects IE users, so there is clearly no reason not to do it. ]]> Mon, 27 Apr 2009 08:46:35 +0000
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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
In fact, Solution #1 is about adding a warning which redirects you to another browser, and changing the viewing to black and white, so that they get the point.

Solution #2 - Irrelevent. Does not solve the problem. The problem is that people who go here with IE (even via google, on a work laptop), will believe that brainstorm is inoperable.

Solution #3 - I guess its kind of a dupe of #1, except no browsesad mode. As the drupal plugin is the same between them, switching between #1 and #3 is a 1 second job.


And yes, I need to crack down on brainstorm idiocy again. ]]> Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:57:07 +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
However, the main problem here, is that "there is no warning". So people will come here with an out of date browser, it wont work, but because there is no warning as to why it doesn't work, they will think the site is dead.

Its about feedback. In fact, Brainstorm should probably warn against using ancient versions of firefox, opera, etc too anyway (as it likely wont run on those either)]]> Fri, 01 May 2009 03:02:30 +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