A 2015-03-29 11:34, Mikel Forcada escrigué:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> I just opened the apertium.org site using chromium-browser and I just
> got a suggestion:
> 
> "This website would like to remind you: Your browser (Chrome 39) is out
> of date. Update your browser for more security, comfort and the best
> experience on this site."
> 
> First, I am not using Chrome 39 but Chromium 39.0.2171.65 Ubuntu 14.04
> (64-bit).
> 
> Second, an official Apertium website should never, ever suggest the use
> of proprietary software such as Chrome. This is absolutely contrary to
> the rationale behind Apertium.

I agree with this, the thing should be disabled until the bug (proposing
that someone installs a non-free browser in place of a free one) is 
fixed.

> Third, what's wrong with using such an "old" browser? We should
> support all browsers, with appropriate fallback to whatever works well
> in older browsers. Not everyone in the world has an updated computer —
> many of them because they simply cannot update them because of old
> hardware.

The problem is that old browsers do not support the features of the 
site. I think
that this is probably not the case for the version of Chromium that you 
are using
but much older and the site will not work.

As you say, the best thing would be to have a fallback HTML-only site 
for translation
that comes up if the browser is too old. This has yet to be implemented 
though.

Fran

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