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

[Dmitri Pal]

On 10/03/2012 10:19 AM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> 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.
+1

> Simo.
>


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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager for IdM portfolio
Red Hat Inc.


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