Officially support only the recent versions of Firefox, Safari, Edge, Chrome / Chromium browsers

Ron_Lavi · February 1, 2022, 10:47am

continue the discussion from the RFC/dev section, couldn’t edit the original post: Officially support only the recent versions of Firefox and Google Chrome / Chromium browsers

and the last discussion about this topic: Drop browser support, deprecate PhantomJS

though since then a few things have changed:

Internet Explorer 11 is going end of life on June 15, 2022 . Meaning that for most Windows versions, using Internet Explorer 11 won’t be an option anymore.
A web developer's 'happiest' announcement: Google Search is saying goodbye to Microsoft's Internet Explorer 11 | ZDNet
we use headless chrome instead of PhantomJS Fixes #21592 - uses headless chrome instead of phantomjs by ezr-ondrej · Pull Request #6748 · theforeman/foreman · GitHub
PatternFly 4 which we depend on quite heavily supports officially only the latest version of Edge, Safari, Firefox, and Chrome: Frequently Asked Questions | PatternFly…

More data about browsers usage statistics are available in 85+ Web Browser Market Share & Usage Statistics (Aug 2021)
and Outdated Browser - Update your Browser

This is currently Foreman’s browser support: Foreman :: Manual

Our suggestion is to support only the recent versions of Edge, Safari, Firefox, and Chrome / Chromium browsers.

As of today, I will be very surprised if Foreman still works on very old browsers,
This move is only to make it official, are there any concerns you can think about?

Thanks!

Duncan_Innes · February 1, 2022, 11:02am

Two points:

Unless you are including Edge under “Chromium”, it should definitely be included. Would be better to list it separately as well if possible.
Not a requirement of mine, but what about Safari browser?

Happy to ditch older browsers though.

Ron_Lavi · February 1, 2022, 11:13am

Added it to the title but forgot in the content itself, yes Edge which is based on chromium is definitely supported

Actually looking again at Frequently Asked Questions | PatternFly they also support latest Safari

Ron_Lavi · February 1, 2022, 11:27am

Updated the post, thanks again @Duncan_Innes ! good eye

ekohl · February 1, 2022, 11:28am

I think we should support the LTS version of Firefox since this is included in RHEL.

Ron_Lavi · February 1, 2022, 11:31am

Yes, I believe the recent versions of Edge, Safari, Firefox, and Chrome / Chromium browsers.

upadhyeammit · February 11, 2022, 2:43pm

As I don’t see the conclusion here. @Ron_Lavi are we updating the browser support matrix from Foreman 3.2 or 3.3?

In both cases request to update the BrowserCompatibility and Deprecations section for nightly and/or 3.2?

Ron_Lavi · February 14, 2022, 8:06am

This is now open for two weeks, been discussed in the demo and I found no concerns,
so let’s make Foreman 3.3 support officially the latest versions of Safari, Firefox, and Edge, Chrome / Chromium browsers.

ekohl · February 14, 2022, 10:01am

RHEL includes Firefox ESR. Where to find release notes for Firefox for Enterprise | Firefox for Enterprise Help links to the release notes which says right now it’s Firefox 91. I think that’s important too.

Ron_Lavi · February 21, 2022, 12:46pm

Opened PR in https://github.com/theforeman/theforeman.org/pull/1959

Ron_Lavi · February 24, 2022, 1:43pm

Thanks @ekohl for merging,
the website is now updated in manuals - nightly - Deprecations
and manuals - nightly - BrowserCompatibility