Opened 15 months ago
Last modified 3 months ago
#48743 accepted defect (bug)
Updating BrowseHappy dashboard notice to discourage IE11 usage
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Milestone: | Future Release | Priority: | normal |
Severity: | normal | Version: | |
Component: | Administration | Keywords: | has-screenshots has-patch needs-refresh |
Focuses: | ui, accessibility, ui-copy | Cc: |
Description
For PHP upgrades, nudging users to update their PHP version proved to be successful.
Maintainability cost of IE11 (In terms of time, bundle size and a lot more) is very high and IE11 is approaching the 1% threshold in its usage worldwide https://caniuse.com/usage-table
I think we should consider adding a notice to discourage its usage.
Attachments (4)
Change History (15)
#2
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15 months ago
@johnbillion I created this https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4863 should we close this one?
#3
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15 months ago
- Milestone Awaiting Review deleted
- Resolution set to reported-upstream
- Status changed from new to closed
#4
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13 months ago
- Component changed from Site Health to Administration
- Focuses ui added; javascript css removed
- Keywords needs-patch has-screenshots added
- Milestone set to 5.4
- Resolution reported-upstream deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
Now that the browsehappy API has been updated (see https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4863) the dashboard notice "nag" will be displayed to Internet Explorer 11 users. See attached screenshot.
The notice message needs to be updated as it still refers to:
- "you're using an insecure version of Internet Explorer"
- "Update Internet Explorer"
This ticket was mentioned in Slack in #core by david.baumwald. View the logs.
13 months ago
#6
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13 months ago
- Milestone changed from 5.4 to Future Release
This ticket still needs a decision and possible patch, and with 5.4 Beta 1 landing today, this is being moved to Future Release
. If any maintainer or committer feels this can be included in 5.4 or wishes to assume ownership during a specific cycle, feel free to update the milestone accordingly.
#8
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11 months ago
- Summary changed from Consider adding a notice do discourage IE11 usage to Consider adding a notice to discourage IE11 usage
#9
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10 months ago
- Keywords has-patch needs-testing added; needs-patch removed
48743.diff simplifies the message for Internet Explorer. While editing this, I also inserted the browser name as alt text for each linked logo image.
It may be worth removing the link from the IE logo with 48743.unlinked-ie-logo.diff, leaving an empty alt attribute for IE only. The linked downloads page highly recommends switching to Edge, though the page is still technically for downloading IE.
#10
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6 months ago
- Focuses accessibility ui-copy added
- Keywords needs-refresh added; needs-testing removed
At least the @since
note will need updating, and I also added the ui-copy
keyword if someone wants to improve the messaging.
In addition to editing the message for Internet Explorer users, any other linked browser icon image needs alt text.
#11
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3 months ago
- Owner set to sabernhardt
- Status changed from reopened to accepted
- Summary changed from Consider adding a notice to discourage IE11 usage to Updating BrowseHappy dashboard notice to discourage IE11 usage
- Type changed from feature request to defect (bug)
Because this includes correcting the current notice for IE users (see #comment:4), I revised the ticket summary and type.
The message would need more editing (emphasizing "If you can use another browser, please do").
Also, once there's feedback on whether to keep the IE logo link, these styles should be added to the preferred patch:
.browser-insecure .postbox-header {border-color: transparent;} .browser-insecure .browser-icon a {display: block;}
This sounds like it should be a meta ticket to add a message to Browse Happy that shows up to IE11 users. See
wp_dashboard_browser_nag()
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