TYPO3 Core

TYPO3 4.4 will support IE6 just as IE7 ...., so let's think about this in 4.5 again (once Windows 2000 support has expired)

...and WinXP, which shipps IE6 by default ;-)

I think we can target this for 4.6 and tell them that their browser isn't supported anymore ;-)

yes, I agree.

The message should be changed from:

Your browser is outdated and might not be supported in future versions of TYPO3.

to something like

Your browser is outdated and might not be supported by TYPO3.

Really? We do support IE6 ;-)

After branching 4.5, we can add this and write "*is* not supported" :)

Now the question is, should we deprecate IE7 as well? Having IE8 + IE9 seems already enough, isn't it?

Suggestion: MS has a banner to warn for use of IE6:
http://www.ie6countdown.com/join-us.html
instead of the URL in that banner a link to:
http://www.browserchoice.eu/
could be used. This is the browser select screen used in Windows and provides direct links to installers.

Okay, we could use our own banner, but it's the idea here :-)

Patch set 1 of change I7c30105e8b69368c2f16c95ea38e7db0bd6dfe7b has been pushed to the review server.
It is available at http://review.typo3.org/2182

Patch set 2 of change I7c30105e8b69368c2f16c95ea38e7db0bd6dfe7b has been pushed to the review server.
It is available at http://review.typo3.org/2182

Why don't we use our own banner with the message (I agree with Steffen in Gerrit on this) that the BE will not work with IE6?

Why not link to the browser choice site which offers installers for various browsers (and not only IE)?

Jigal van Hemert wrote:

Why don't we use our own banner with the message (I agree with Steffen in Gerrit on this) that the BE will not work with IE6?

Then we should get in touch with the design/UX team. And what about multilingual banner? Do we want this banner to be "translated" in our 35+ supported languages? I fear this tiny patch could become a huge dumb code and list of files included...

Why not link to the browser choice site which offers installers for various browsers (and not only IE)?

Well, from my POV that would be trying to move them out of Internet Explorer. I'm not against it but the point is to let them run a recent version of their browser. Perhaps they already have Firefox but prefer using IE, perhaps not but the point is that they should not use IE6 anymore. Furthermore, we should then detect old version of the corresponding other browsers too as they may have deactivated auto-update. Again, it's a +/-0.

Patch set 3 of change Id7d8411ae38e55dd6fa2747dce2fb85522c7bbc7 has been pushed to the review server.
It is available at http://review.typo3.org/3381