Very new to Umbraco, apologies if I'm posting this in the wrong place.
Does anyone know of a plugin that will display a message to a user if they navigate to a website that's with a browser that the site has not been designed for.
For example, I want to tell IE 8 users and below that the site may not work and to update their browsers.
Thanks for the quick answer, I had no idea conditional-comments existed.
Modernizer seems interesting, but a little stale from the news feed (last updated Apr 2013).
From this recommendation, I'm inferring that perhaps I should be thinking more about using a JS lib to mitigate the CSS cross browser risk rather than about which browser versions are visiting?
I think the Modernizer news section dates are misleading, the source-code itself is still actively developed, (according to their GitHub repo). Although, for the most part it is pretty much "feature complete" :-)
Browser detection (for specific browsers) is still widely used, there's nothing wrong with doing that.
The future/modern ideology is to do "feature detection", the thinking is to degrade experiences for older browsers, rather than kick them out the door.
Of course, this all comes with a cost (in terms of money, time, knowledge and energy) ... which isn't always a luxury when client deadlines are looming ;-)
Notification to users for unsupported browsers?
Hi All,
Very new to Umbraco, apologies if I'm posting this in the wrong place.
Does anyone know of a plugin that will display a message to a user if they navigate to a website that's with a browser that the site has not been designed for.
For example, I want to tell IE 8 users and below that the site may not work and to update their browsers.
Kind regards Si
Hi Simon,
For IE specifically you can use conditional-comments to target specific versions of IE.
See this article for details about it: http://www.quirksmode.org/css/condcom.html
If you wanted to target other browsers, then you could start looking at using Modernizr (JavaScript library): http://modernizr.com/
This will add a bunch of classes to the root
<html>tag, when you can use CSS to display/hide features, notifications, etc.Cheers,
- Lee
Hi Lee,
Thanks for the quick answer, I had no idea conditional-comments existed.
Modernizer seems interesting, but a little stale from the news feed (last updated Apr 2013).
From this recommendation, I'm inferring that perhaps I should be thinking more about using a JS lib to mitigate the CSS cross browser risk rather than about which browser versions are visiting?
Many thanks Si
I think the Modernizer news section dates are misleading, the source-code itself is still actively developed, (according to their GitHub repo). Although, for the most part it is pretty much "feature complete" :-)
Browser detection (for specific browsers) is still widely used, there's nothing wrong with doing that.
The future/modern ideology is to do "feature detection", the thinking is to degrade experiences for older browsers, rather than kick them out the door.
Of course, this all comes with a cost (in terms of money, time, knowledge and energy) ... which isn't always a luxury when client deadlines are looming ;-)
Cheers,
- Lee
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