pingcap
Support more browsers
Feature Request
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe:
Currently we only support very recent browsers.
Describe the feature you'd like:
The support may be extended by shipping polyfills for legacy browsers.
Describe alternatives you've considered:
Teachability, Documentation, Adoption, Migration Strategy:
Reference: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/10/smart-bundling-legacy-code-browsers/
Note that it would be better to decide the polyfill at client side. See https://github.com/browserslist/browserslist-useragent-regexp
Although we can do this, the main used library - ant design 4.0 only support the latest modern browsers: https://ant.design/docs/react/introduce-cn#%E5%85%BC%E5%AE%B9%E7%8E%AF%E5%A2%83
In my opinion, the dashboard is a product toB, not toC. Unlike toC, it rarely happens that the user decides to not use this product (and TiDB) just because it can't run in his browser. I think it is fine to prompt users to upgrade their browser if the browser is outdated. And support legacy browsers will limit us to use some new web technologies. Of course, this is just my personal view.
@baurine We have already met several important clients using an old browser like a Chrome published 3 years ago. If we can support this case then it would be great.
Maybe we should declare the supported browsers list in our documentation as well likes grafana: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/installation/requirements/#supported-web-browsers
Got it and make sense. I talked with DBA, the clients may use a very old Chrome or Firefox browser (they won't upgrade it after installing), but they don't use IE anymore.