Hello again,
Im wondering whether or not its possible (or could be made possible) to run an up to date proxmox installation but sticking with the old webinterface.
Before people come screaming "but the new webinterface is so much better!!!", heres my reasoning for that request:
THE major selling point for proxmox in my presentations always was that the proxmox webinterface (VERY unlike vmware) runs flawlessly in ANY browser really since it didnt use javascript (which is a HUGE plus) nor ajax or any other super fancy stuff that makes it prone to errors (*).
All those errors listed below (in the * section) may or may not have simple or complicated solutions, but I really only wanted to make the point that the new webinterface just isnt nowhere near the old one in terms of simplicity and productivity.
It feels like the webinterface has taken a HUGE step backwards in 2.1 because now its in a state where I actually wanted to get away from, a state we know from vmware, where the webinterface only works occasionally and only on certain browsers / browser versions / operating systems. And thats REALLY not a desirable state.
Furthermore the 1.9 webinterface was SO much more organized and well structured then the new one that the new webinterface lacks the elegance it used to have.
The first impression of the 1.8/1.9 webinterface everyone Ive ever shown it to was: (paraphrased) "Wow, this is so well structured and simple. Its so very rock solid and man it just works. Thats the kind of webdesign I want, the design that people have stopped making years ago to dump it in favor of obnoxious "dynamic" garbage."
(*) Errors like: the webinterface being unusably broken, producing around 50 (thats a guess on my part, the list is long!) errors in the firefox error log, all related to the resources/css/ext-all.css style sheet which apparantly has all its content in only 1 line (as a means obfuscation?), which makes it impossible to debug - image attached.
Also a coworker of mine gets this error about 80% of the time when trying to get a console: Network error: could not connect to server: <proxmox hostname was here>:5900
Im constantly getting "Network error: remote side closed connection". I need to hit Reload 1-5 times until it magically starts displaying the console.
None of these issues is present on the 1.9 machine thats having exactly the same configuration as our new 2.1 test machine (save for the IPv4 address obviously ;-))
Im wondering whether or not its possible (or could be made possible) to run an up to date proxmox installation but sticking with the old webinterface.
Before people come screaming "but the new webinterface is so much better!!!", heres my reasoning for that request:
THE major selling point for proxmox in my presentations always was that the proxmox webinterface (VERY unlike vmware) runs flawlessly in ANY browser really since it didnt use javascript (which is a HUGE plus) nor ajax or any other super fancy stuff that makes it prone to errors (*).
All those errors listed below (in the * section) may or may not have simple or complicated solutions, but I really only wanted to make the point that the new webinterface just isnt nowhere near the old one in terms of simplicity and productivity.
It feels like the webinterface has taken a HUGE step backwards in 2.1 because now its in a state where I actually wanted to get away from, a state we know from vmware, where the webinterface only works occasionally and only on certain browsers / browser versions / operating systems. And thats REALLY not a desirable state.
Furthermore the 1.9 webinterface was SO much more organized and well structured then the new one that the new webinterface lacks the elegance it used to have.
The first impression of the 1.8/1.9 webinterface everyone Ive ever shown it to was: (paraphrased) "Wow, this is so well structured and simple. Its so very rock solid and man it just works. Thats the kind of webdesign I want, the design that people have stopped making years ago to dump it in favor of obnoxious "dynamic" garbage."
(*) Errors like: the webinterface being unusably broken, producing around 50 (thats a guess on my part, the list is long!) errors in the firefox error log, all related to the resources/css/ext-all.css style sheet which apparantly has all its content in only 1 line (as a means obfuscation?), which makes it impossible to debug - image attached.
Also a coworker of mine gets this error about 80% of the time when trying to get a console: Network error: could not connect to server: <proxmox hostname was here>:5900
Im constantly getting "Network error: remote side closed connection". I need to hit Reload 1-5 times until it magically starts displaying the console.
None of these issues is present on the 1.9 machine thats having exactly the same configuration as our new 2.1 test machine (save for the IPv4 address obviously ;-))
