In my web development travels I have -tried- to develop with many browsers in mind. The main problem that I have run into as I attempt to please all browsers is that IE and Opera have the best support for HTML and CSS. Netscape, who many tote as so much better, is crap when it comes to design using W3C standards. I would like to drop M$ as much as the next guy, but I do not find a compelling reason. The banners of Opera (which still is a little screwy with CSS) or the widely used, and decent devil IE are my only real choices. I have used Konquerer and like it, but I cannot expect KDE to be on the majority of desktops for a while. If Opera can get rid of the few quirks and the banners, I would procaim it "King of browsers" in an instant.
You can do what you have to to prevent legal liability, or to protect your system. That one is pretty easy to defend if defending is needed. You do not need a policy to say "it is illegal" or "it will destroy our system". Your job is to make sure that the resource is used apropriately, and if it is being abused by some, and the entire institution is effected, you should let the top administrators know of the situation. I have been a network admin for schools for several years now, and the Administration as a whole has tended to respond well to such advice/warnings. If it causes a policy that comes from the district level, you will not be alienating anyone by enforcing the policy because you were told to do so. Some may choose to hold it against you anyway, but that type of person is not usually the kind that you want to hang out with anyway.
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In my web development travels I have -tried- to develop with many browsers in mind. The main problem that I have run into as I attempt to please all browsers is that IE and Opera have the best support for HTML and CSS. Netscape, who many tote as so much better, is crap when it comes to design using W3C standards. I would like to drop M$ as much as the next guy, but I do not find a compelling reason. The banners of Opera (which still is a little screwy with CSS) or the widely used, and decent devil IE are my only real choices. I have used Konquerer and like it, but I cannot expect KDE to be on the majority of desktops for a while. If Opera can get rid of the few quirks and the banners, I would procaim it "King of browsers" in an instant.
You can do what you have to to prevent legal liability, or to protect your system. That one is pretty easy to defend if defending is needed. You do not need a policy to say "it is illegal" or "it will destroy our system". Your job is to make sure that the resource is used apropriately, and if it is being abused by some, and the entire institution is effected, you should let the top administrators know of the situation. I have been a network admin for schools for several years now, and the Administration as a whole has tended to respond well to such advice/warnings. If it causes a policy that comes from the district level, you will not be alienating anyone by enforcing the policy because you were told to do so. Some may choose to hold it against you anyway, but that type of person is not usually the kind that you want to hang out with anyway.