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We are all about graceful degradation for many years now, we just want to give you a tool on your arsenal where you:
1 — You, the developer. Can decide what's outdated for the specific project you are about to publish. This is not a rigid rule for any website and depends on the project and it's target. If you can do a fully functional website across on all browsers: great, if not you can inform the users that they won't see what they should and that they must upgrade it. If they ignore it they will remember it later. The most important thing is that you decide when to warn them that they should update the browser. If it makes sense to the functionality you need, warn them and give them the possibility to update.
2 — You, the user. The website points them to the most recent version of the most commons browsers. The website is not for the developer, that's the plugin, the website it's the most simple interface we could came up with.
The Linux version development of Opera has stopped in the version 12, so it's an outdated browser. We know that the new version is almost out, we will add the link when the version is public.
This tool doesn't try to cover all the available options of browsers, it's just a simplified website for the less techsavvy people: The clients that say "How Do I Do That" when you ask them to clean the cache of the browser or to update the browser. More options mean less focus so we decided to include all the browsers with >3% usage.
They can use chrome, or FF, or Opera. Again our task is not to solve the browser community problems, even the browser teams skip this, again this is tool for: the developer to inform when you need a certain version, the user to upgrade the browser easily.
Yes, this plugin works in IE6+ versions (we had no chance to test it on <IE6)
Actually we detect CSS properties, and correlate with IE support. The plugin can detect IE8+ browsers, bellow that we don't make any distinction, after all they are all outdated.
We don't force the users to update, this tool is just to make them aware that the website that they are about to see is a huge compromise when compared to the full experience. We did this because our websites are not simple and most of the times some of the core visual interfaces doesn't work on older browsers. The problem is that many people don't know this and just want it working on their browser. Use the Outdated Browser to reduce this list.
It's humor ;) This tool was thought to the desktop browser community because the mobile browsers vary too much. Mobile version is now accessible for the ones who want to check the website. As the mobile updates are different, and usually the mobile versions of the websites are already a striped down version website from all the fancy artillery that we like to use on desktop, the outdatedbrowser for mobile is not that relevant for the problem that this tool tries to solve. If the community keeps on requesting this update, we will consider to develop it.
The translation is finally available for anyone who is willing to participate:
Plugin — use the branch feature/languages
Website — use the branch feature/WEBSITE_languages
We'll keep you posted as soon as we have languages available!
We recommend the use of the outdatedBrowser.min.css and outdatedBrowser.min.js files for Production, but we have at your disposal the unminify versions: outdatedBrowser.css and outdatedBrowser.js