Alert info message when the browser version is unsupported or low edition

[zhoumeina]

If the browser version were not in the browser support list, we want to give the user a message to tell them "update the brower" or "the current is not supported, try....." or something.

[shaohef]

That's very useful to user.

[adamkingit]

Thi can be a double edged sword. You either have to spend time chasing and updating the list, or you have to assume >= a particular version which doesn't always work as well as you might think.

[shaohef]

@aglitke and @sming56 do we will support this feature?
Seems it is useful.
IMHO, we should not support IE8, IE8 is not friendly for html5.
but many users still use IE8.
We can prompt them to upgrade their IE.

[aglitke]

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 07:48:15PM -0700, shaohef wrote:

@aglitke and @sming56 do we will support this feature?
Seems it is useful.
IMHO, we should not support IE8, IE8 is not friendly for html5.
but many users still use IE8.
We can prompt them to upgrade their IE.

Seems reasonable. Maybe have an alert on the login screen.

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[sming56]

Agree. We can tell the user if he want a good quality of the UI, IE9 at least if a legacy IE browser is detected. We can display the warning message before the login window popups.

[ghost]

I'd like to take this one. Would you please assign it to me?

[ghost]

@sming56 one alternative is to show a new popup window before the login screen, where the user can click to see upgrade instructions or click a checkbox to dismiss. Or we could show a short text message inside the login window, below the login credentials, saying "Browser not fully supported" and provide a link for details and a checkbox to dismiss.

Any suggestions?

[hlwanghl]

@rangell I suggest to have a single page for it, just like error 404 page. This will help avoid unexpected page rendering of the tabs, pop-up window if the browser is too old to support jQuery.
In the single page, we can do several things:

1. show incompatible message like: "Sorry, only the following browsers are supported current. You can click one of the following browser links to get one; or <button>Continue with your browser anyway.</button>
2. Provide option to allow save user's choose. <input type="checkbox">save my choice</input> This will need cookie manipulation through kimchi.cookie.
3. A list of supported browsers with their icons and official website links.

[shaohef]

@rangell sure. your are welcome to take this.

@aglitke can I apply the privilege of the github?