Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 11:47 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> At least on iOS 6, Safari doesn't seem to show any 401 page at all.
>> When you hit the "raw" link, you get an "Authentication required"
>> popup with just space for username and password. If you put in
>> a wrong value, the popup re-appears. There's not much you can
>> do except hit "Cancel". Not very helpful at all I'd say. (Now
>> admittedly, on a phone-size screen it's not clear that there's
>> room for much of a prompt, but still...)
> Well, the page usually shows up once you hit cancel.
Not in Safari...
> There is plenty of room on the phone screen to do a prompt. At least
> android has no problem at all with it. But that doesn't really matter
> if a platform that's half of our mobile visitors can't handle it -
> because we can't change that. Unless we want to take the same approach
> as we do with some of the windows code, which is say "it's good
> enough, if people want the better functionality they should pick a
> more suitable platform". (which for the access of raw or mbox isn't
> entirely unreasonable, really..)
I don't have a problem with that approach. As you say, a
mobile-optimized version of the site would be the only real fix for some
of these issues, and it doesn't seem to me that we have the manpower or
interest for that. (Yet, anyway.)
> But is it actually any worse than the old archives?
Only in this one regard of having an unexpected password prompt show up.
regards, tom lane