Mastodawn

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.

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henry May 23, 2023

@cassidy Always interpret this kind of notification as open admission of gross incompetence and do not proceed. Think of it as reading “Hey dude, look, this site is working with some browsers, not with others, no idea why LOL. Might be infested with viruses that steal your data and infect your computer LOL, but yo it works on this one browser…”

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henry

@cassidy “Dude, we don’t even know PHP over here. The site was put together by some guy who knew a guy who could get it done really cheap on eBay. The comments in the code are like Cs and Rs turned the wrong way isn’t that cool? The site is just barely holding up though. So anyways we don’t try to fix it just sit around play Call of Duty. If anyone calls we tell them they gotta use Chrome. And the managers here don’t know any IT so they don’t even know how dumb it makes them look.”