SharePoint 2010 and browser support

Question

Is there an out-of-the-box way of restricting browsers and versions from within SharePoint 2010? We have found that the user has the best experience on IE7+ for our intranet so we'd like to redirect the user to a friendly page on all other browsers. Can this be done easily or will we have to write custom code?

Thank you :)

Answer 1

You could include some browser sniffing code in your masterpage. This would require some custom code (either client javascript or server code).

With that said, the there is much better support in 2010 versus 2007 for Chrome, FireFox, and Safari. Here is a full rundown on browser compatibility for SharePoint 2010. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263526.aspx