[ovirt-devel] ovirt support ie7 ?

[Vojtech Szocs]

Hi, sorry for my late response.

oVirt GUI (WebAdmin, UserPortal) does not support IE7.

For WebAdmin, we support IE9 and above [1].

[1] InternalConfiguration.java / SupportedBrowser

For UserPortal, we support IE8 and above. (But running
in IE8 will be slow and painful experience anyway.)

Technically, both WebAdmin and UserPortal are compiled
for IE8 and above [2] unless specified otherwise.

[2] frontend/webadmin/modules/pom.xml / gwt.userAgent

We don't support IE6-7 because they are... very old.
People still using Windows XP can upgrade to IE8.
People using Windows older than XP can upgrade to XP.

If you really want to build oVirt GUI for IE7:

  a, revert this patch:
     http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/11629/

  b, use "ie6" user agent (which covers IE6-7):
     $ make [usual stuff] DEV_EXTRA_BUILD_FLAGS_GWT_DEFAULTS="-Dgwt.userAgent=ie6"

Note that in future (upgrade to GWT 3.0) we won't be
able to support IE6-7 at all, because GWT itself will
drop support for these antique browsers.

Regards,
Vojtech
  

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alexander Wels" <awels at redhat.com>
> To: devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2014 2:33:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-devel] ovirt support ie7 ?
> 
> On Monday, August 25, 2014 11:41:03 AM Lior Vernia wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > To the best of my knowledge IE9 and above is supported.
> > 
> > To build exclusively for IE9 you could add the following line when
> > running make (see README.developer file in the root your ovirt-engine
> > source directory for reference):
> > DEV_EXTRA_BUILD_FLAGS_GWT_DEFAULTS="-Dgwt.userAgent=ie9"
> > 
> > You might try passing ie6 or ie7 instead of ie9 - I have no experience
> > doing this, but even if it's not supported it might "work enough" :)
> > 
> 
> I recommend against it, but if you insist on trying, there is no specific
> user
> agent to compile for IE7 as it uses pretty much the same Javascript engine as
> IE6, so you would have to pass IE6 as the user agent with the extra build
> flags
> as above.
> 
> > Yours, Lior.
> > 
> > On 25/08/14 11:25, Leaboy wrote:
> > > Hi, all:
> > > Does ovirt support IE 7?
> > > If support , how could I build it for IE 7?
> > > 
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