IE 11 certified with Webcenter portal now

Oracle has now certified IE11 (Internet Explorer 11) for WebCenter Portal 11.1.1.7.x and 11.1.1.8.x. You need to implement patch up to 11.1.1.8 with the latest Bundle Patch – kindly refer to Note 1087226.1

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Error the end users will see, in IE11 (within a popup):

You are using an unsupported browser. The supported browsers are Internet Explorer 7 and higher, Firefox 2.0.0.2 and higher, Safari 3.1.2 and higher, and Google Chrome 1.0 or higher.

Example of the popup screen:

Unsupported Browser

In summary, there are a number of differences between Microsoft IE 11 and former versions, where one that makes more difference is the change of the User-Agent header string