Check browser version and block old browsers

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the reusable front-end bits in the _magpie modules

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Check browser version and block old browsers #37

Open JannisBush opened 5 years ago

JannisBush commented 5 years ago

We are using some "new" javascript features, therefore we might should check the browser of a participant and stop the experiment on old browsers.

The problem is: what are the minimum requirements we have? And some mobile browsers might fulfill all requirements, but we might still want to block them for some/all experiments.

Also, do we trust our users and just use an easy detection (e.g. console.log(navigator.userAgent);) or do we want a solution that is more reliable?

x-ji commented 5 years ago

I think we also mentioned this before, though in general people who take up MTurk etc. experiments already have a really new version of browser installed. There should already be some browser version detection libraries/packages that could help do the job, and we could try to use them.