Adding files to cards and canvases: in Internet Explorer 9, and other browsers

Technology, Usability

Adding files from your desktop to a card or canvas in Kerika is now easier than before: providing you are using Firefox, Chrome or Safari…

Internet Explorer 9, however, remains less elegant. And that won’t change until folks start moving off IE9 to IE10 (or, at a minimum, stop running IE9 in the dreaded “compatibility mode” which Kerika won’t support at all!)

There are several ways you can add files to your cards or canvas, all of which result in the files being uploaded to your Google Drive and shared automatically, seamlessly with your project team members:

Use the upload button inside the card details display, like this:

Adding files using the File Upload button
Adding files using the File Upload button

Drag and drop a file onto a card details display, like this:

Dragging and dropping onto card details
Dragging and dropping onto card details

Drag and drop a file onto a canvas, like this:

Files dragged and dropped onto canvases
Files dragged and dropped onto canvases

Drag and drop a file onto a card on the task board itself, like this:

Dragging and dropping a file onto a task board
Dragging and dropping a file onto a task board

All of these work on Firefox, Chrome and Safari, but with Internet Explorer 9 only the first method works: you have to click on Upload button.

There isn’t much we can do about it, since Internet Explorer’s implementation of the HTML5 standard was so erratic… Sorry.