In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roderick A. Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 -- Tony Mountifield Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.softins.co.uk Play: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://tony.mountifield.org _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
