Re: Proposal: Drop support for Internet Explorer - Mailing list pgadmin-support
From | Dave Page |
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Subject | Re: Proposal: Drop support for Internet Explorer |
Date | |
Msg-id | CA+OCxoxpJKNaN-8wfsnm7TYX6cLSQtA+dhz11hyOhC3X1CmhtA@mail.gmail.com Whole thread Raw |
In response to | Re: Proposal: Drop support for Internet Explorer (Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net>) |
List | pgadmin-support |
On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 at 18:51, Darren Duncan <darren@darrenduncan.net> wrote:
You have a typo `elif browser != 'chrom'` but otherwise I see no problems with
the patch, thank you. -- Darren Duncan
Well spotted. That was an intentional testing artefact (deliberating causing Chrome to not be recognised), but Akshay also spotted it before committing:-)
On 2020-04-14 7:46 a.m., Dave Page wrote:
> Ooops. Thanks for catching that. Here it is.
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 3:45 PM Neel Patel <neel.patel@enterprisedb.com
> <mailto:neel.patel@enterprisedb.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> Looks like patch is missing in attachment.
>
> Thanks,
> Neel Patel
>
>
> On Tue 14 Apr, 2020, 6:53 PM Dave Page, <dpage@pgadmin.org
> <mailto:dpage@pgadmin.org>> wrote:
>
> Here's an updated patch that gives a slightly different message if the
> browser is unknown vs. unsupported/deprecated. As with the previous
> patch, the check can be disabled in the config.
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 5:07 AM Khushboo Vashi
> <khushboo.vashi@enterprisedb.com
> <mailto:khushboo.vashi@enterprisedb.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 11:57 PM Darren Duncan
> <darren@darrenduncan.net <mailto:darren@darrenduncan.net>> wrote:
>
> The patch looks good as much as I understand it, but this raises
> an important
> question:
>
> How should one best handle minority browsers that may be
> completely modern but
> you may not specifically know about them? Such as the newer
> crop of browsers
> that emphasize stronger privacy or may have fewer identifiers?
>
> While going on a whitelist as the patch essentially does for
> known good browsers
> is conservative, I feel that an alteration would be good.
>
> I propose dividing the browsers/environments into 3 categories,
> which are
> recognized-supported, recognized-unsupported, and unrecognized.
>
>
> So the unsupported older versions of supported browsers get a
> stronger message
> encouraging a browser switch as they are recognized as
> unsupported, while
> unrecognized browsers get a different weaker message saying they
> weren't
> recognized so we can't determine if they'd work; both can point
> to the list of
> known supported browsers.
>
> I do agree with this suggestion.
>
> Related to this, there could be an application toggle that
> affects the
> unrecognized category where users can basically say, yes I
> understand you don't
> recognize this browser, please hide the warning, or something
> like that.
>
> Also, it probably goes without saying, but the code/templates
> will need to be
> structured in such a way that the warning message uses about
> plain as possible
> HTML so that if the browser doesn't support displaying the UI in
> general it can
> at least display the message.
>
> -- Darren Duncan
>
> On 2020-04-09 4:36 a.m., Dave Page wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 12:26 AM Darren Duncan wrote:
> >
> > If its hard to know how many people are actually using
> Internet Explorer:
> >
> > You could make the next release of pgAdmin display a
> message occasionally to
> > users of Internet Explorer saying that Internet Explorer
> will no longer be
> > officially supported in a future version, and when that
> version comes the
> > message says now no longer supported.
> >
> > You can then see how many people contact you about this
> to express concern.
> >
> >
> > Good idea. I've hacked up a patch to warn users if they're
> using a deprecated or
> > unsupported browser.
> >
> > CCing Akshay for a review :-)
> >
> > --
> > Dave Page
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> > Twitter: @pgsnake
> >
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>
>
>
>
> --
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>
>
>
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