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To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL WWW <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: New archives for testing
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 20:53:59 +0000
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On Sunday, December 30, 2012, Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <[email protected] <javascript:;>> writes:
> > On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Dave Page <[email protected]<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
> >> The prompt isn't shown on all browsers, so we should stick it on the
> >> website somewhere too.
>
> > Ugh, that's annoying.
>
> > Do you think we can get away without putting it next to every single
> > link? Because I'm not sure how we can do that without making it look
> > like crap. But if we don't, are people likely to ever read it?
>
> How big a problem is this? When I checked, both Safari and Firefox
> showed the prompt. If there are just a few little-used browsers that
> fail to show it, I'm not convinced that we have to clutter the pages
> for everybody to cater to them. I can think of more than a few other
> sites where that prompt is pretty damn essential for usability, so
> I would argue that a browser that doesn't show it is broken anyhow.
>
I don't think it was originally intended as a prompt (it's the security
realm actually), but most browsers showed it anyway and it's been (ab)used
that way for years. FYI, the browser I saw not displaying it was Safari on
iOS, so most definitely not 'little used'.
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