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Update information regarding browser support

Open Abbe98 opened this issue 2 years ago • 5 comments

The section(s) on browser support feels rather outdated. I'm for example rather certain that we have way more issues on Safari than on Firefox nowadays. Based on some quick issue search over at the main repository a lot of users also seems to be running OpenRefine in Firefox.

https://openrefine.org/docs/manual/installing#compatible-browser

I would suggest that we replace these sections with a general statement of supporting "evergreen browsers".

Abbe98 avatar Mar 13 '23 17:03 Abbe98

It could be worth trying to run the Cypress test suite with Firefox again. Some years ago it was quite unstable but it might have been down to the test setup rather than actual bugs with Firefox. I have to admit I don't have a good overview of browser support otherwise. The only bug I am aware of with Firefox is the lack of styling of some form elements (checkboxes in facets) leading to some ugly renderings. So whenever I do screenshots or screen recordings I tend to go for Chromium.

wetneb avatar Mar 13 '23 19:03 wetneb

The only bug I am aware of with Firefox is the lack of styling of some form elements (checkboxes in facets) leading to some ugly renderings. So whenever I do screenshots or screen recordings I tend to go for Chromium.

Could you give me a pointer? I'm only aware of "natively styled" checkboxes in facets.

Abbe98 avatar Mar 13 '23 20:03 Abbe98

yes that's the ones I have in mind, I don't know if they are the only ones.

wetneb avatar Mar 13 '23 20:03 wetneb

I think that such styling is platform dependent, on Fedora/Firefox they look way better than on Fedora/Chromium (Freeworld) in my opinion.

Abbe98 avatar Mar 13 '23 20:03 Abbe98

Can I do this? @Abbe98 @wetneb Please assign me this issue

amyra98 avatar Mar 16 '23 10:03 amyra98