Re: Proposal: Drop support for Internet Explorer

Ooops. Thanks for catching that. Here it is.

On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 3:45 PM Neel Patel <neel(dot)patel(at)enterprisedb(dot)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(at)pgadmin(dot)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(dot)vashi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 11:57 PM Darren Duncan <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>> --
>> Dave Page
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>>
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>>
>

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