1241845 - Add a deprecation warning in the console for old Tabzilla

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Websites :: Tabzilla, defect)

Description

[Alex Gibson [:agibson]]

As the old Tabzilla is deprecated but many third-party sites are still using it, I think it makes sense to add a deprecation warning to the console to prompt site maintainers to update.

We could add the message here: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/blob/master/bedrock/tabzilla/templates/tabzilla/tabzilla.js#L611-L617

We could use a message along the lines of:

"The version of Tabzilla you are linking to is deprecated and will be removed in the future. Please update to the new static version here: https://github.com/mozilla/tabzilla/"

Comment 1

[Alex Gibson [:agibson]]

Attachment: GitHub pull request

Comment 2

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/bc63a6375c89b34f9a1036b6640a649ff5eaf4a6
[fix bug 1241845] Add a deprecation warning in the console for old Tabzilla

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/66b042055017c698dd2e7bda28f4860bb19681f1
Merge pull request #3831 from alexgibson/bug-1241845-add-deprecation-warning-tabzilla

[fix bug 1241845] Add a deprecation warning in the console for old Tabzilla

Comment 3

[Kohei]

As I wrote somewhere else, my work-in-progress list of Mozilla sites using the old Tabzilla assets can be found here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Vh8lAXh7cQ5VVBW8EWu7pTA1EaNVvpVplLFGPBELRHw

Comment 4

[Alex Gibson [:agibson]]

(In reply to Kohei Yoshino [:kohei] from comment #3)
> As I wrote somewhere else, my work-in-progress list of Mozilla sites using
> the old Tabzilla assets can be found here:
> 
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/
> 1Vh8lAXh7cQ5VVBW8EWu7pTA1EaNVvpVplLFGPBELRHw

Thanks Kohei!

We'll give people a little time to hopefully see the console warning and act on it. In terms of the next action, I think it might be worth opening a bug to try and outreach to some of these sites if they don't upgrade.