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The latest version of Android 4.1 was released in 2012. The latest version of chrome for that seems to be around 23. A lot of android 4.1 shipped without TLS 1.
by SahAssar 7y ago
The latest version of Android 4.1 was released in 2012. The latest version of chrome for that seems to be around 23. A lot of android 4.1 shipped without TLS 1.1 by default. So you are stuck with SSLv3 or TLSv1. Those are just examples, there's a lot in security that has changed since 2012.
A lot of basic security was missing back then, asking anyone to enter any security-sensitive info on those devices now is like telling someone to use WinXP and IE8 for online banking. Besides that the great variety of devices that shipped on versions v4.1-v4.4 and with their different hacks/customizations it is simply not feasible to ask developers to support them years after many of them cannot be had to even test a website on, let alone debug it.
- mark_and_sweep 7y agoA couple of things.. - The tablet is ~5 years old. Even if it was 8 years old, I think you should still be able to order a pizza online. - TLSv1 is far from plaintext. But in any case, the TLS version doesn't matter in this case. The site was loading properly. - Even if the TLS version was outdated, are we now banning people from using the internet for using an older device? - Submitting the form didn't work, the navigation was partially broken. It was probably a JS issue, but I don't know. - The moral of the story, to me, is that, as a web developer, you should also care about those $few% that don't have all the green boxes on caniuse.com. Depending on how many users your site has, this may just be a few people or it might be millions - among them, possibly, your Mom.