 |
 |
Gary, To allow the two staff persons here that are on Win 7 + IE9 work with EBS we enabled the "Compatibility Mode". This forces IE9 to pretend to be IE7 and allows the EBS system to work. See Method 1 on this page for the pictures on how to set this up: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956197 I agree with you about the lack of support for newer browsers, the Angel/Blackboard system has the same limitation. -- Troy Murray Michigan State University College of Medicine B228 Life Science P: 517-432-3545 F: 517-353-5436 E: [log in to unmask] (mailto:[log in to unmask]) RedHat 5 Certified Technician (RHCT) RedHat 5 Certified Systems Administrator (RHCSA) On Thursday, June 23, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Gary Schrock wrote: > Anyone know when we'll see updated browser support for EBS? The current > support is getting a bit long in the tooth, and a laptop that I just > received from Dell actually came with IE9 installed already, which of > course won't work. Firefox 5 is now out, and even 4 doesn't work (of > course, it should never have been called 5 anyways, but that's a > completely different story). > > Further, personally, I kind of find it ridiculous that the system not > only doesn't work with the newer browsers, it explicitly blocks them. > (My guess is it's pretty likely it really would work if not for that). > I can understand telling people that only certain versions are > supported, but actively blocking other versions is pretty low. I had a > faculty member here who had a lot of problems with that because he's on > a Mac, and ended up having to use a secretary's machine to do his > benefits updates recently because he couldn't get in from the mac > because all the browsers he had were blocked. > > Gary