[asterisk-users] AsteriskNOW and IE

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <47F4D64B.9050703 at acm.org>,
Roderick A. Anderson <raanders at acm.org> wrote:
> Tony Mountifield wrote:
> > When I bring up the Asterisk GUI in AsteriskNOW, using IE7, it displays
> > a message at the top "Your browser is not supported by this version of GUI!",
> > and "We recommend using Firefox".
> > 
> > Does this mean that it is known NOT to work under IE7, or just that it is
> > insufficiently tested to be guaranteed?
> > 
> > It's easy to ask techies to use Firefox, but if we are trying to sell a
> > system to a customer who always uses IE, it is a bit of a negative point
> > to tell him, "oh, by the way, you have to download Firefox onto your PC,
> > because this doesn't work with IE."
> 
> I trick(?) used at a place I worked for was to install Firefox and make 
> a desktop shortcut to it for the GUI.
> 
> The interesting part was that once the users got using Firefox and 
> realized it did browsing better (mostly using tabs) they converted to 
> Firefox.  IE was still on the desktop because they had to support a lot 
> of customers that used IE but for in-house stuff it slowly became a 
> Firefox place.

I like it - a bit of social engineering!

Thanks to all for the responses on this thread, and to Kevin for the info
about there being an upcoming new GUI. I'll watch with interest - I've
just subscribed to asterisk-gui, so I assume info will be forthcoming
on there.

Cheers
Tony
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