On Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:07:46 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
What exactly are these so-called "security updates" that necessitate shutting out users of multiple web browsers? Were there any issues that applied generally, such as to include forums.opensuse.org, or were they limited in applicability, thus not forums.opensuse.org?
Were there not release notes for the update that warned multiple web browsers would no longer be "supported", even though "web browsers" are not what websites are supposed to support, but user agent functionality? The concept of "web browser" support has been broken from day one. W3 instructs it's function to sniff for if sniffing is necessary, which itself should be limited.
The update that was installed was a security update, but the browser support changes were not related to security specifically. I've asked upstream about it, and here's what they told me. Seamonkey says it's FF 91 compatible, but it isn't - it's actually based on FF 60.8. Seamonkey does not support the CSS attribute "aspect-ratio", which Discourse depends on, and has since 2021. In my investigation, the change that caused Seamonkey to stop working was the dropping of support for iOS releases earlier than 15, which also do not support that attribute. The change in the upstream Discourse software was implemented about 11 months ago - we were behind on updates, and the update that was implemented recently got us current. That CSS attribute has been part of the standard now for a number of years. It's probably something you should report a bug for against Seamonkey, as more and more sites are depending on it (in a quick test, I noticed that Reddit also doesn't work well with Seamonkey). -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits