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Issue with opening website on Internet Explorer (Needs Info/testing) #5096

Open ananyaarun opened 5 years ago

ananyaarun commented 5 years ago

Description

Although most technical user of the public lab website don't usually use Internet Explorer, I noticed that Opening publiclab.org on this browser has issues.

Possible Solution

After more testing, if this is actually the case maybe a msg/alert can be given to the user saying best for "X browser Y version" or "recommended use X browser". A lot of common users who want to post notes/wikis may still be using internet explorer , hence a msg like this would clear the confusion rather than discourage a user who isn't able to see anything on the website properly when opened.

grvsachdeva commented 5 years ago

Confirmed by running the website on Internet Explorer via browserling. Dropdowns are not working. Thanks @ananyaarun for reporting.

ananyaarun commented 5 years ago

@gauravano , Can we add info regarding "Best in X browser" etc or "recommended in Y browser" in the readme or something to ensure no one opens it on IE to find nothing is working ?

grvsachdeva commented 5 years ago

Either we can do the work to make website IE compatible or display message on detecting IE browser. @jywarren can we decide on basis of # of user who visit PL from IE, maybe? We have Google analytics setup right?

ananyaarun commented 5 years ago

Yes, If ratio of people using IE is less we can detach IE browser else something needs to be done to make it IE compatible as at the moment The website is pretty unusable on IE.