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Provide clear messaging for unsupported browsers #22

Open lagleki opened 9 years ago

lagleki commented 9 years ago

Looks like Polymer (now deprecated actually) isn't gonna work on Firefox 14.0. It'd be nice to support this browser by either fixing polymer or removing "core-header-panel"

rictic commented 9 years ago

Is there a user on a platform that can't upgrade to a modern browser? Firefox 14 was released in July of 2012 and given the pace of browser security attacks it is quite dangerous to use any browser that old for day to day browsing. The browser support matrix I've been targeting for sutsis has been the most recent two versions of the five major browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, and IE).

(polymer/Platform was renamed to webcomponentsjs. I can say authoritatively that Polymer is not deprecated)

lagleki commented 9 years ago

2014-11-14 22:14 GMT+03:00 Peter Burns notifications@github.com:

Is there a user on a platform that can't upgrade to a modern browser?

looks like.

Firefox 14 was released in July of 2012 and given the pace of browser security attacks it is quite dangerous to use any browser that old for day to day browsing. The browser support matrix I've been targeting for sutsis has been the most recent two versions of the five major browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, and IE).

(polymer/Platform was renamed to webcomponentsjs. I can say authoritatively that Polymer is not deprecated)

well, yes, sorry, that's what i meant, they (you?) just renamed it.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/rictic/sutsis/issues/22#issuecomment-63114381.

lagleki commented 9 years ago

2014-11-14 22:29 GMT+03:00 Gleki Arxokuna gleki.is.my.name@gmail.com:

2014-11-14 22:14 GMT+03:00 Peter Burns notifications@github.com:

Is there a user on a platform that can't upgrade to a modern browser?

looks like.

Btw, i tested Firefox 17.0 ESR and it again produces several errors in polymer scripts.

Firefox 14 was released in July of 2012 and given the pace of browser security attacks it is quite dangerous to use any browser that old for day to day browsing. The browser support matrix I've been targeting for sutsis has been the most recent two versions of the five major browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera, and IE).

(polymer/Platform was renamed to webcomponentsjs. I can say authoritatively that Polymer is not deprecated)

well, yes, sorry, that's what i meant, they (you?) just renamed it.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/rictic/sutsis/issues/22#issuecomment-63114381.

rictic commented 9 years ago

Support and patches for Firefox 17 ESR ended in December 2013. Firefox 31 ESR is the current extended support release.

Did Firefox drop support for the user's platform?

lagleki commented 9 years ago

I think it'd be nice to inject this or similar script to sutsis so that people stop complaining and updating their browsers:

http://browser-update.org/

Because what happens now is that they say: "It doesn't work". Indeed, they can only see "Loading dictionary ..." message forever.

rictic commented 9 years ago

+1, good point, I'll roll that in with the next update.