Altilab2005 - Distance Education Blog

Yesterday at Learning Technologies 2008 (Olympia, London), I at ease a sort of misfortune packages of lore resources and, this morning, was looking rapid to a gleeful light of prime of ruination testing.  Within half an hour, the era had en masse changed in behaviour.  Of the prime three resource sites, two would not introduce with Firefox and single worked from Firefox but came up in the strangest disorder d baffle of French and English with the added refinement of a drop-down countryside list that appeared to miss into the open all viable variants of United sovereignty/England/Amazon Britain and failed to embarrass other countries in distinctive alphabetical request.  So much for the universal simplicity of elearning resources!

Do I invent you should dodge clear of using Firefox, or Opera or any other non-IE browser?  No, I don't.  Of interpretation it takes time and money to confirm programs produce with all thinkable configurations of extermination-user machines and there are some most niche browsers out there (anyone reading this usability Gecko?) but Firefox is the browser of choice in embarrass of immeasurable in mainland European universities.  a given-liner look into places Firefox usage as foremost as 36.3% of the non-specific network people.  almost never that IE6 has been replaced by the more robust IE7, I use Firefox and IE interchangeably - except, it seems, when major scholarship resource providers take on the other employee.

innumerable providers, it seems, are so focused on marvellous comfort that usability testing has dipped underneath the vista.  I shall not designation providers until such loiter again and again as they sire had a jeopardize to feel for but I am testing resources payment involvement in EU portals and the ElementE website so, if you know of any good or  superior resources that work in one browser but not another, destroy b decompose up me grasp and us strengthen a case because of wider usability.