You often have some requirements of your users to make sure everything works smoothly. Since you can often involve taking tests, watching lectures, and submitting homework online, it's important that everything does work smoothly. So I understand why you want to make sure we use a browser that you specifically support... but you need to support real browsers.
Now, I understand not necessarily supporting browsers like Chrome and Firefox, or at least not always supporting the latest versions of them. This is mildly annoying to people like me who like using something other than Internet Explorer since it's pretty crappy, but you need to focus on making sure there's something you support that everyone has. The problem comes when you don't even fully support IE.
I have to use Blackboard for an online class, and yet I don't know how I could even get a supported browser. Blackboard supports IE 7 and 8, and Firefox 3.5 and 3.6. I use Chrome, but of course my computer has IE on it since it's a windows machine. But I have IE 9 because Windows updates it automatically. I suppose I could go get Firefox just for this one class, but Firefox would want to give me it's latest version (last I knew they were on 4.0). I shouldn't have to go out of my way to try and find some old, crappy, outdated browser just to take an online class. And what are Mac users supposed to use for a browser? It doesn't support Safari at all.
At the very least, everything needs to support the latest version of IE.
-SF
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