The other day in class, I was logging into my campus portal in order to download some datasets for a class, and I noticed this wondrous parity of photo and caption.
I’m glad to see that my university is going all 2.0 in order to get me to use its dilapidated portal service. I’m even gladder to say it’s working.
What platform is that? uPortal?
I wish! It’s some closed-source piece of garbage, one of SunGard’s campus portals. It’s bad. I still get an error message asking me to use a supported browser, by which it means nothing past Firefox 1.5.0.1. Ugh.
For the record, we still use Blackboard Vista instead of Moodle or something similar. Behind the times.
It didn’t occur to me that this post would interest you especially! How forgetful I can be.
If it’s Luminis, then it’s technically based on parts of uPortal, though only after it’s been run through Sungard’s MakeSoftwareShitty machine.
Hardcoding browser values in a hidden file somewhere is bad, bad practice. Our version of uPortal had the same problem—I had to go in and add IE7 and Opera >= 9 so it would work with those browsers.
Reminds me of Robot Hand is the Future. Guess I was right all along.
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