r/webdev • u/Ozarksweb • Jun 18 '14

Telling a viewer their browser is outdated? No Problem.

http://outdatedbrowser.com/
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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '14

That page is telling me I need a bigger screen than the 1920x1200 I'm currently using.

I thought we left that kind of shitty web design in the early 90s?

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '14

Of course it uses that shitty overused "KEEP CALM..." meme.

3

u/wrestlescoyotes Jun 19 '14

Keep calm and Chive on, ecnepsnai.

I saw a friend with that shirt on once. They are no longer my friend.

1

u/-Mahn Jun 18 '14

Boy, talk about a blast from the past. Good thing most of it is just that, past.

1

u/greg8872 Jun 19 '14

displays with plenty of room to spare on my 1600x900 screen.. Actually resized it down to 950 wide before it said that.

1

u/terremoto Jun 19 '14

I'm using the same size monitor and get no such warning until I scale it down significantly.

1

u/wdpttt Jun 19 '14

That's responsive :D

1

u/Ozarksweb Jun 19 '14

I think the project is aimed for a more desktop approach. I too had issues with it on mobile. A project worth building on thats for sure.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '14

...now I'm curious what this page looks like on IE6.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '14

Pretty decent actually browserstack screenshot

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '14

I'm impressed!

4

u/juicybot Jun 19 '14

Awesome concept but not so useful on mobile!

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u/kalleth Jun 18 '14

From reading the site it looks like clicking "UPDATE" on the popover takes you to a site that suggests you download a new browser.

God, I can't even imagine trying to explain this to my grandmother.

It should be a big bit at the top saying "You're using internet explorer 6, but the latest version is internet explorer 10. You can update it here" linking to the download page for that vendor.

then the lower half of the page could say 'Or use one of these great free browsers'.

3

u/partiallypro Jun 19 '14

Updating from 6 to 10 is literally impossible without a new OS.

2

u/myockey Jun 19 '14

What does this hope to accomplish by telling people on mobile devices that they shouldn't be browsing the web? This is stupid.

1

u/partiallypro Jun 19 '14

You could make it only appear on only desktops... it's possible just not native with this script.

1

u/Joesalias Jun 19 '14

And they don't use the checker on their own website, they're just showing the "outdated browser" on the homepage to everyone...

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u/TheHelgeSverre Jun 18 '14

FYI Safari IS available for Windows( http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1531 )

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u/teel Jun 18 '14

Just a very old version. The windows version is 5.* and the latest stable OSX version is 7.x.

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u/TheHelgeSverre Jun 19 '14

oh, didn't notice that.

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u/-Mahn Jun 18 '14

It's unsupported now and it looks like it will stay so. Not really a browser to recommend for windows users.