[cosmo-dev] Safari 2

[Bobby Rullo]

Where/when do you display this message? As an interstitial? As a pop  
up and fadeaway?

bobby
On Nov 15, 2007, at 11:52 AM, Matthew Eernisse wrote:

> Blacklisting -- i.e., not letting people log in at all -- might be a  
> bit draconian, given that there may be *degrees* of brokenness even  
> in a known bad browser. :)
>
> An alternative would be to whitelist the supported browsers, and  
> present the rest with a message of "your browser is unsupported, use  
> at your own risk. Here are our supported browsers" -- but still  
> allow people to log in.
>
> This makes it clear that things may be broken (whether it's because  
> the browser is too old, too new, too experimental, or too minor a  
> player), and puts the onus on the user to decide what to do. We  
> wouldn't have to maintain a blacklist.
>
> This is what we did at my last job (over a period of seven years or  
> so and many browser upgrades), and it seemed to work reasonably well.
>
>
> Matthew
>
> Bobby Rullo wrote:
>> +1 IFF we have a page for "unsupported browsers" - like "Your  
>> browser is not supported by Chandler Server. Please use one of the  
>> following..."
>> Most sites accomplish this via a whitelist - only allow known  
>> supported browsers. I am against that in principle - it basically  
>> says "only browsers which we know can play along" and it means that  
>> if some new cool browser/platform is introduced which completely  
>> supports web-standards we would be blocking them just because we  
>> didn't know about them.
>> For this reason I'd rather have a blacklist - block versions web  
>> browsers of the major families (Firefox, Safari, IE) which are  
>> known to break.
>> bobby
>
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