On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 11:57 PM Darren Duncan <dar...@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 > > Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com > > Twitter: @pgsnake > > > > EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com > > The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company > > > >
