Microsoft launches 'child-friendly' Internet Explorer

[Theblacksheep]

Why do children need a giant police button on a web browser?

[AngryTechnician]

I'd like to think it would work and satisfy Serco (depends on the engineer you get for support, I guess) - is there a GPO to force this though? Having just had to explain tabbed browsing to staff I think Compatibility View may be a step too far

Compatibility View is in fact enabled by default for anything in the Local Intranet zone, so you should be OK assuming Serco is hosted onsite (I've never used it so don't know).

[Gibbo]

I still don't agree with the term "ZIP IT".

[sonofsanta]

Unfortunately some of us are still stuck on IE7 thanks to ePortal compatibility...

Just had a circular from Serco... for the release of 10.1 on Monday April 26, they've announced that

Facility ePortal v10.1 will support Internet Explorer 8.

Hurrah!

[chrbb]

Anyone using or intending to use the child friendly browser?

[mrmontymick]

Just had a circular from Serco... for the release of 10.1 on Monday April 26, they've announced that


Hurrah!

We've been using IE8 and ePortal together since September 09 and so far haven't encountered any issues....

(Now crossing all fingers and toes to keep it that way)

[sonofsanta]

We've been using IE8 and ePortal together since September 09 and so far haven't encountered any issues....

(Now crossing all fingers and toes to keep it that way)

I've been using the combination on my machine here and at my last school for about 9 months and never seen anything, but then I never have to actually use ePortal - I've always held back just in case there's something I've not seen before. Now they officially support it, though, I can roll out IE8 (will try for the child-friendly version) and know that Serco support can't blame that for any problems we might be having

[TheLibrarian]

I've just contacted them about network installer versions of this software.

Maybe we all should do that and then they may provide...

Got a response...

Thank you for the enquiry. Microsoft are currently developing a solution
that will allow the browser to be deployed to multiple machines. This
should be available in the near future. As soon as I have further
details I will let you know.

[sonofsanta]

Got a response...

Good stuff, although I'm wondering if we can just build an MSI with IEAK8 based on this version of the browser...

[TheLibrarian]

Update:

mailto:Nicholas.Harlow@ceop.gsi.gov.uk sent me the following:

Microsoft have now issued us the files required to deploy to CEOP ie8 browser to multiple machines.
Here are the links

http://visualsearch.msn.com/IEAK/CEOP/IEAK_XP32.exe
http://visualsearch.msn.com/IEAK/CEOP/IEAK_XP64.exe
http://visualsearch.msn.com/IEAK/CEOP/IEAK_Win7_Vista32.exe
http://visualsearch.msn.com/IEAK/CEOP/IEAK_Win7_Vista64.exe
http://visualsearch.msn.com/IEAK/CEOP/IE8_IEAK_XP32.exe
http://visualsearch.msn.com/IEAK/CEOP/IE8_IEAK_XP64.exe
http://visualsearch.msn.com/IEAK/CEOP/IE8_IEAK_Win7_Vista32.exe
http://visualsearch.msn.com/IEAK/CEOP/IE8_IEAK_Win7_Vista64.exe

If you are able to let me know how many computers the browser is uploaded to, that would be really helpful.

I've not tried any of these yet.