Cassidy James   May 23, 2023

Web developers: when you say, “your browser does not support this site,” what you REALLY mean is that YOU don’t support the browser. Don’t turn it around on the user because you chose not to stick to well-supported standards, or worse, are doing user agent sniffing.

If you truly use some feature shipped by one browser and not everyone, at least say, “We use x standard feature, which is unsupported in this browser.” But even then, the web is all about progressive enhancement.

#WebDevelopment

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@cassidy yeah, sadly I sometimes miss the days when we had to support IE6, because at least “everyone” was forced to support a certain baseline level of compatibility, whereas today it’s like the degree of consideration is like “last X versions of Chrome and Firefox” and no further thought goes into it.
May 23, 2023 at 3:18pmWeb