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

Show threadCrazy PonyMay 23, 2023

@cassidy i always read "our site does not support your browser" when i try to visit them in Midori

Its their bleeding edge super brittle javascript framework that does critically demand on the selected most recent browsers to render some content at all

Show threadCassidy James   
@crazy_pony I mean… is Midori still updated? Last I checked it was super out of date and used an insecure WebKit version, but it’s admittedly been a while.
May 23, 2023 at 7:38pmWeb