Re: Proposal: Drop support for Internet Explorer

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:

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> On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 11:57 PM Darren Duncan <darren(at)darrenduncan(dot)net>
> wrote:
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>> 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.
>>
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>> 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.
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>
>> 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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