The advice we were given from Blackboard was that users should certainly
*not* use Netscape 6, as Tim says. Have not come across any issues with
Netscape 7 though.
Spencer
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MLE Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Tim Bentley
> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 11:12 AM
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> Subject: Re: blackboard & netscape 7
>
>
> Kate Boardman wrote:
> > Help! Anyone having problems with Netscape 7 and Blackboard? Two days
> > into term (when ITS have installed N7 without intensive testing, yippee)
> > and I'm beset by calls from the helpdesk, ironically all about printing.
> > Yesterday 3 users managed to print off 500+ copies of a document in
> > Blackboard, today someone can't print at all. Netscape 7 doesn't appear
> > to recognise the content frame as a frame, and therefore resolutely
> > refuses to allow a print option unless you open in a new window (tab).
> > Which is interesting because yesterday's 500+ culprits were only
> > printing the content, and it was definitely still from within
> Blackboard.
>
> Hmm, that's quite odd - I've been using NS7 since pre-release as my
> primary command station browser for BB and all has been well. Some users
> have reported performance issues (which all turned out to be a 56K modem
> responding at 14.4 only - no wonder it was a bit slow). On the whole
> there's been no major issues with NS7. NS6 sucked big time - sometimes
> the button bar wouldn't appear at all, but 7 has exhibited no
> problems here.
>
> Sorry that's not a lot of help.
>
> Tim
>
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