Re: supported browsers

On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 10:06:05 -0500, Chad Whitacre  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I would agree with Michael that we should be careful with using  
> javascript to enable/disable features. I think our policy there should  
> be something like: We only *enable* features using javascript, so w/o  
> javascript == default, degraded state.

That's what I meant, I was a bit imprecise, sorry. That's the approach  
taken with Plone 2.0, although there are still a few bits that need  
improvement.

> So we are looking at a four-level browser support policy. I think we  
> should be specific about which UI features we are supporting at which  
> level (and Tonico, I think this may help answer your concerns re:  
> usability/UI standards):
>
>
>
> 1) Full DHTML Support (IE, Moz/FF, Nav)
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Includes: Epoz (but technically this isn't part of Plone, eh?)

It will be a core dependency in 2.1, most likely. Not the current Epoz  
0.x, but the newer one, with the new name Kupu (you heard it here first! ;)

It's really a nice editor now, and outputs 100% valid XHTML. Take that,  
IE! (is this a correct location for a "BLAM!"? ;)

>            XMLHttpRequest (where is/will this be used?)

For anything requiring data submission without leaving the page. Some  
planned areas are up/down positioning, replying to comments, Kupu uses it,  
and there are a lot of places where it makes sense.

> 2) Partial DHTML Support (Opera, Safari, Konqueror)
> -------------------------------------------------------
> Includes: action menus
>            date widget
>            "Navigational Plone Tabs(tm)" :p
>            anything else here?
>            everything supported at Level 3

Sounds good.

> 3) CSS Support
> -------------------------------------------------------
> All *style* for anonymous Plone will be consistently displayed across  
> all CSS2-supporting browsers.

Amen. Too bad there are none that support the entire spec. ;)

> 4) Universal Info Access
> -------------------------------------------------------
> All *information* will be accessible by any user agent.

Yes.

> I feel like we're getting somewhere. :)

Definitely, this is pretty much the way we should list it, I think.

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