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Lech Rzedzicki

Orbeon support in IE6

It's been 10 years and yet, with the new project we still have to support IE6.

I really want to use XForms and Orbeon in particular, but from my initial testing it simply didn't work with IE6 or even IE7.

This was running on AWS against eXist backend.

The application being developed is pretty much a form being filled online, so the Xforms approach is very appropriate.

Is there a list of things that don't work with IE6 in Orbeon?

How should I design the system to cope with such an inferior client?

I really don't mind if the experience is diminished on IE6 , it doesn't have to look nice, but I need some advanced features to work:

dynamic binding for subselection (when you choose a country - I should be able to enumerate the list of counties/states/regions etc)

The form is pretty long, so it would be great to save the work in progress etc...

Please let me know if Orbeon still supports IE6 and how to design it so that the advanced features work on decent browsers and degrade gracefully on IE.

Lech

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Ralf Jung

Re: Orbeon support in IE6

Hi,

according to http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/orbeon-forms-faq/faq-xforms#TOC-
What-web-browsers-does-the-XForms-e, IE6 is still supported by the XForms
engine. So, if it does not work, that should qualify as a bug.

Kind regards,
Ralf Jung

Am Dienstag 23 November 2010, um 09:57:38 schrieb Lech Rzedzicki:

> It's been 10 years and yet, with the new project we still have to support
> IE6.
>
> I really want to use XForms and Orbeon in particular, but from my initial
> testing it simply didn't work with IE6 or even IE7.
> This was running on AWS against eXist backend.
> The application being developed is pretty much a form being filled online,
> so the Xforms approach is very appropriate.
>
> Is there a list of things that don't work with IE6 in Orbeon?
> How should I design the system to cope with such an inferior client?
> I really don't mind if the experience is diminished on IE6 , it doesn't
> have to look nice, but I need some advanced features to work:
> dynamic binding for subselection (when you choose a country - I should be
> able to enumerate the list of counties/states/regions etc)
> The form is pretty long, so it would be great to save the work in progress
> etc...
>
> Please let me know if Orbeon still supports IE6 and how to design it so
> that the advanced features work on decent browsers and degrade gracefully
> on IE.
>
> Lech

Erik Bruchez

Re: Re: Orbeon support in IE6

Administrator

Yup everything except Form Builder should work with IE 6. We regularly
test it. Even the datatable works with IE 6 (and it's been a terrible
pain ;).

-Erik

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Ralf Jung <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> according to http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/orbeon-forms-faq/faq-xforms#TOC-
> What-web-browsers-does-the-XForms-e, IE6 is still supported by the XForms
> engine. So, if it does not work, that should qualify as a bug.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ralf Jung
>
> Am Dienstag 23 November 2010, um 09:57:38 schrieb Lech Rzedzicki:
>> It's been 10 years and yet, with the new project we still have to support
>> IE6.
>>
>> I really want to use XForms and Orbeon in particular, but from my initial
>> testing it simply didn't work with IE6 or even IE7.
>> This was running on AWS against eXist backend.
>> The application being developed is pretty much a form being filled online,
>> so the Xforms approach is very appropriate.
>>
>> Is there a list of things that don't work with IE6 in Orbeon?
>> How should I design the system to cope with such an inferior client?
>> I really don't mind if the experience is diminished on IE6 , it doesn't
>> have to look nice, but I need some advanced features to work:
>> dynamic binding for subselection (when you choose a country - I should be
>> able to enumerate the list of counties/states/regions etc)
>> The form is pretty long, so it would be great to save the work in progress
>> etc...
>>
>> Please let me know if Orbeon still supports IE6 and how to design it so
>> that the advanced features work on decent browsers and degrade gracefully
>> on IE.
>>
>> Lech
>
>
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Lech Rzedzicki

Re: Re: Re: Orbeon support in IE6

Thank you.

I will do some more reading then and I'll try to submit an accurate bug report (if it really proves to be a bug).

Lech

On 23 November 2010 16:34, Erik Bruchez <[hidden email]> wrote:

Yup everything except Form Builder should work with IE 6. We regularly
test it. Even the datatable works with IE 6 (and it's been a terrible
pain ;).

-Erik

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Ralf Jung <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> according to http://wiki.orbeon.com/forms/orbeon-forms-faq/faq-xforms#TOC-
> What-web-browsers-does-the-XForms-e, IE6 is still supported by the XForms
> engine. So, if it does not work, that should qualify as a bug.
>
> Kind regards,
> Ralf Jung
>
> Am Dienstag 23 November 2010, um 09:57:38 schrieb Lech Rzedzicki:
>> It's been 10 years and yet, with the new project we still have to support
>> IE6.
>>
>> I really want to use XForms and Orbeon in particular, but from my initial
>> testing it simply didn't work with IE6 or even IE7.
>> This was running on AWS against eXist backend.
>> The application being developed is pretty much a form being filled online,
>> so the Xforms approach is very appropriate.
>>
>> Is there a list of things that don't work with IE6 in Orbeon?
>> How should I design the system to cope with such an inferior client?
>> I really don't mind if the experience is diminished on IE6 , it doesn't
>> have to look nice, but I need some advanced features to work:
>> dynamic binding for subselection (when you choose a country - I should be
>> able to enumerate the list of counties/states/regions etc)
>> The form is pretty long, so it would be great to save the work in progress
>> etc...
>>
>> Please let me know if Orbeon still supports IE6 and how to design it so
>> that the advanced features work on decent browsers and degrade gracefully
>> on IE.
>>
>> Lech
>
>

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