禁用浏览器更新 JS 预加载的一个原因

开发
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Hi,

I noticed Discourse HTML code having below kind of lines

    <link rel='preload' href='/assets/browser-update-xyz24ff41586d6dcda055f0cfb41488724ba2e2d5271fef65ce5f480b46f9231d.js' as='script'/>
<script src='/assets/browser-update-xyz4ff41586d6dcda055f0cfb41488724ba2e2d5271fef65ce5f480b46f9231d.js'></script>

  • What it does?

  • Is it for other browser as well except outdated Internet Explorer?

Please see https://caniuse.com/#search=preload

If browser would be already outdated then

  • How is it going to support preload?

  • I don’t see advantage of preloading at least for modern browser who probably don’t need browser update message.

I am not sure if this is related to just Internet Explorer or other too, in case IE; may be we can just use conditional HTML comment line instead using JS? This would be lightweight.

<!--[if lt IE 9]>
	<div>Unfortunately, <a href="https://www.discourse.org/faq/#browser">your browser is too old to work on this site</a>. Please <a href="https://browsehappy.com">upgrade your browser</a></div>
<![endif]-->

Top 10 Web Browsers
1 Chrome 78 38.51%
2 Safari 13 8.65%
3 Chrome 77 5.89%
4 Safari 12 4.25%
5 Firefox 70 3.57%
6 IE 18 3.17%
7 IE 11 2.99%
8 Samsung 10 2.44%
9 Chrome 76 1.82%
10 Chrome 74 1.44%
Source: W3Counter: Global Web Stats

  • Is it still neccessary?

Thanks & Regards,
Gulshan

2

AFAIK IE is still supported until June, although support is currently being moved into a plug-in.

3

Most of my audience are familier about latest browser. I would be happy to ignore support for IE.

4

Move Internet Explorer support to core plugin

Discourse will be dropping support for Internet Explorer in June 2020. (A formal announcement will be made mid-January). In preparation for this, Internet Explorer specific code has been moved into a plugin, making it easier to remove come June.

Source

5

Why would preloading be a problem? I do not understand your request.

6

对于其他浏览器，为未使用的预加载资源浪费用户带宽是不值得的。

7

根本不存在 IE 18。

8

过去大约六年一直运行良好。

再多六个月也无伤大雅。剥离 IE 支持的主要原因是为了降低复杂性，而非预加载带来的负担。

9

那 Microsoft Edge 呢？

10

我希望它能在接下来的 6 个月内被移除。