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ClaSS - a Web-Based Student Information System

Posted Dec 23, 2005 10:10 UTC (Fri) by Klavs (subscriber, #10563)
Parent article: ClaSS - a Web-Based Student Information System

I always hate when people "require Firefox" - either directly, og by only testing in Firefox :( - then they are no better than all those IE only dummies.

OSS people should know better. The requirement should be to use a browser that obeys w3c standards.

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Posted Jan 5, 2006 10:01 UTC (Thu) by stjohnson (guest, #34971) [Link]

ClaSS only working with one standards compliant browser annoys me too. But I suppose that has to be better than only working with a non-standards compliant browser like IE?

I developed ClaSS in the time left over from teaching children physics all day (in other words next to zero). With limited resources and a high pressure schedule there really was no option but to pick one browser and go with it. I think I picked well.

I would love to open-up ClaSS to work with other standards compliant browsers. It maybe no more than a question of testing thoroughly and finding it already works. If anyone can offer the time to do this I'd be more than grateful.

ClaSS - a Web-Based Student Information System

Posted Jan 5, 2006 14:02 UTC (Thu) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]

"It maybe no more than a question of testing thoroughly and finding it already works. If anyone can offer the time to do this I'd be more than grateful."

That's exactly the reason why one should not waste time with stupid browser checks. 1. in the time you could have found out that it works equally in Seamonkey and other Gecko browsers. 2. you'll never have time to test every browser on earth and find out that it works there, too.