Closed Bug 691246 Opened 13 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Browser detection guide is severely out of date

Categories

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: General, defect)

Product:
Developer Documentation Graveyard
Component:
General
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: hsivonen, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

(Keywords: APIchange, Whiteboard: u=webdev p=0 c=General) 

The browser detection guide at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Browser_Detection_and_Cross_Browser_Support is severely out of date. It talks about Netscape 4 and IE4 but it doesn't talk about current problems related to WebKit monoculture on mobile.

I suggest removing references to Netscape, Compuserve, IE older than IE6 and Opera older than Opera 10 or so. I suggest rewriting examples of bad detection to include things like using Modernizr to detect 2D transforms but then using only WebKit-specific 2D transforms (as opposed to using -moz-, -o- and -ms- in addition to -webkit-).
FWIW, I've flagged the page so it will show up in the Wiki Wednesday rotation, and other places where people look for articles that need updating.
Component: Documentation Requests → Documentation
Component: Documentation → General
Product: Mozilla Developer Network → Developer Documentation
Whiteboard: u=webdev p=0
Keywords: APIchange
Whiteboard: u=webdev p=0 → u=webdev p=0 c=General
This page has been archived, with a frightening banner leading to a better (though not perfect) article.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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