[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] [WIP] Firefox extension

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 15:50 +0200, Petr Vobornik wrote:
> As Alexander proposed in other channel. I will remove the removal of 
> configure.jar and offer the old configuration method if user is using FF 
> < 4 so we don't have to make the extension compatible with this ancient 
> version. It will be done this way:
> 
> If FF < 4 is detected:
>   * in browserconfig.html steps 2 and 3 will be grayed-out and replaced 
> with step 2a with a link to ssbrowser.html and a description explaining 
> the problem
>   * ssbrowser.html will be enhanced by steps for autoconfiguration of FF 
> < 4.
> 
> We can also show the steps in browserconfig, but I want to have it 
> somehow available even if user is not using FF<4 to keep general 
> awareness about the problem and also to be usable if version detection 
> fails. Other possible problem with steps in browserconfig is different 
> styles of buttons (to keep the same styles we would have to include same 
> css files and jquery.js to configure.jar, which I don't want to do).

Excellent plan, we should try to reduce the amount of work, and letting
old browsers use the old method is perfectly fine.
If FF15 is the only browser that fails with the old method I would even
go as far as testing exclusively with FF15 and have anything < FF15 use
the old method.

Simo.

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