[Laszlo-dev] [RESENT] Re: supporting XULrunner as a browser for DHTML

[P T Withington]

It's trivial to make it be off by default.

But, I'm curious:  what has changed to make us not want to warn any  
more?  I thought it was a big deal to QA to distinguish between  
supported and unsupported browsers. Surely we don't want to get a  
whole raft of bug reports against browsers we don't intend to support?

On 2008-04-17, at 15:06 EDT, David Temkin wrote:
> Still think it should be removed, or turned off by default.
>
> It's more trouble than it's worth, and any real app will want a  
> custom "unsupported browser" screen.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:41 AM, P T Withington wrote:
>
>> [Resent to Laszlo-Dev]
>>
>> The checking is in our default, auto-generated wrapper page (via  
>> our default embedding code), not in the app.  And I thought max  
>> made it use a cookie so you could say "don't ask" just once?
>>
>> The simplest thing for [the customer] to do is to create their own  
>> wrapper page and call dhtmlEmbedLFC with a second argument  
>> (allowUnsupported) of `true`, which turns off the check.
>>
>> On 2008-04-17, at 12:52 EDT, David Temkin wrote:
>>> I have a suggestion:
>>>
>>> Let's remove the browser checking code altogether -- or leave it  
>>> in the OL distro as a separate utility, but separate it out from  
>>> compiled apps.
>>>
>>> I have had the experience of running OL/DHTML apps in  
>>> "unsupported" browsers which in fact do work. My preference is to  
>>> just get rid of the compat. check, and leave it up to the  
>>> application (really, the HTML that wraps the application) to do  
>>> whatever checks, if any, that it wants to do.
>>>
>>> - D.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 17, 2008, at 9:10 AM, Henry Minsky wrote:
>>>
>>>> [the customer] has a bug where the version of Firefox they are  
>>>> using embedded into their IDE, XULrunner, gets flagged as
>>>> a non-supported runtime by our browser checking code.
>>>>
>>>> [the customer] says:"
>>>>
>>>> you most likely test that string : Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;  
>>>> Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/ 
>>>> 2.0.0.13 and check for " Firefox/2.0.0.13" whne in fact the GRE  
>>>> version is the important one "rv:1.8.1.13"
>>>>
>>>> Where would I go to modify the check to allow XULrunner ?