Do browsers still update automatically?

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wakenbyWork2021-09-16 18:35:48

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wakenbyWork, 2021-09-16 18:35:48

In general, I want to use the clamp css property. He has the following support:

After all, browsers are now automatically updated, and for example, it doesn’t work out that someone does not have an updated browser and the code will not work?

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Dmitry, 2021-09-16
@MaKvc

You cannot know this! And even more so, to influence it!
1. Automatic update can be disabled at the request of the user.
2. Automatic updates can be disabled by the system administrator, often practiced in offices. Sometimes only IE or a portable version is available. There is no way to install your programs.
3. In some Linux distributions, automatic updates are disabled by default. There are distributions in which only the stable version of the browser is available. Sometimes, the "stable version" is the old version!
4. In portable builds of the browser, as a rule, the update is disabled. I use this! And as you guessed, the version is not updated by me.
UPD:
As for clamp, you need to know the audience. The network is already full of sites on grids and norms. work!

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SagePtr, 2021-09-16
@SagePtr

Let's put it this way: if this function critically affects your functionality, then you should not use it. But if it only slightly affects the appearance, and without it the font will be slightly the wrong size, then you can use it, just check first on an unsupported browser how it will look.

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CityCat4, 2021-09-17
@CityCat4

for example, it doesn't work out that someone doesn't have an updated browser and the code won't work?

It will easily work out.
For example, this message is written in FF 52 ESR. And there are also Mozilla clones such as PaleMoon, Waterfox and Basilisk - they have behavior similar to FF of the pre-quantum era.
And for example, competent developers take into account the behavior of FF 52 and its clones - as shown by the discovery of a recent jamb on a toaster.
And the illiterate ones fill up space - and in FF 52 the site simply does not work with it :)
PS: I have disabled automatic updates for FF. This evil. When I want to update, I will update somehow myself.