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likeomgitznich
likeomgitznich
Inspiring
August 17, 2016
Question

Updating ColdFusion Site for Modern Browsers

  • August 17, 2016
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Hey everyone,

I built a site for a company, all modern stuff. The website has a section that is hooked to a ColdFusion site(?) Unfortunately the portal is so old that it need to be set into compatibility mode in order to function. However, when you set the site to compatibility mode the site doesn't render (I am assuming because it uses more modern html5 code and it doesnt know what to do with it)

So the question is, is it possible update old .cfm files in order to function on the modern web (easily, this is the first time i ever heard of coldfusion)? Also, it is running on ColdFusion MX 7...and I really dont think they are willing to upgrade.

If anyone is interested this is the old portal.

And thank you so much in advance

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WolfShade
WolfShade
Legend
August 17, 2016

Unfortunately, support for CFMX7 is long past EOL, and honestly they really should upgrade if for no reason other than security.  Not to mention, CF7 is using JRUN; CF10 switched to Tomcat (much nicer, I think).

But the "more modern" stuff isn't related to CF, unless CF code is writing some or all of the HTML.  The more modern stuff would be the front-end; CF is more back-end (database connections, etc.)  So, bringing the HTML into the 21st Century is what you really want/need, not so much the CF (although I still stick by my assertion that the CF upgrade really _should_ take place.)

HTH,

^_^

likeomgitznich
likeomgitznichAuthor
Inspiring
August 17, 2016

Do you know of anyway I can get the module to stop checking if you are running IE 5.0?

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haxtbh
Inspiring
August 18, 2016

This depends completely on the code written for the module.

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