As part of the discussion we had last week on Neo Legacy Applications ( http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=8116 ), the topic of applications that require old browsers came up. A wonderful example of how old browser support can be handled, phasing older code out gracefully, is Google's recent announcement that they'll be withdrawing support for IE6 and other older browsers, found here ==> http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/01/modern-browsers-for-modern-applications.html =============== Rob VandenBrink Metafore ============== |
Rob VandenBrink 578 Posts ISC Handler Feb 3rd 2010 |
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Feb 3rd 2010 1 decade ago |
I cannot help but mention the built-in applications that depend on IE6. One of them is the Liebert Network Monitoring Card on the Nfinity series. It uses browser detection to run javascript, and IE7 and IE8 do not work with it. Opera can be tricked to work with it, but only if you disable javascript, limiting some functionality. Not a pretty picture created by Microsoft's proprietary IE6 for the near future and perhaps beyond. Thanks MS! -Al
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Al of Your Data Center 80 Posts |
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Feb 3rd 2010 1 decade ago |
If you have a choice in vendors (big caveat, I know). Choose one that makes their product work cross-browser. (This does not necessarily preclude embedded browser based systems, but embedded cross-browser based systems are harder to come by.)
I have been coding cross-browser web applications for over 12 years and can say with experience that cross-browser web applications tend not to break with major browser version upgrades. (I think Microsoft learned their lesson with the IE 5.x box model problem fixed in IE 6.0). Cross-browser web applications tend to stick to W3C standards and not go for the proprietary extensions that tend to break with major browser releases. |
Nathan Christiansen 20 Posts |
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Feb 3rd 2010 1 decade ago |
Since the last article, only one of the webapps I previously mentioned have been upgraded to support IE7, but still adamantly refuse to use firefox. The other webapps still haven't been touched.
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Feb 3rd 2010 1 decade ago |
I really wish Firefox and Chrome would pull things together, in terms of designing for the enterprise. There are fairly robust tools built right into AD for managing Internet Explorer. With Firefox, there are some kludgy add-ons that make it possible--but it is downright ugly. Chrome? They don't even have NTLM, proxy authentication, etc. sorted out yet. I think companies would be quicker to embrace Firefox or Chrome if they had some developers thinking about the enterprise.
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blm 3 Posts |
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Feb 3rd 2010 1 decade ago |
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