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> One thing is to keep supporting something that costs hundreds of dollars (like an iPhone), but there is very little sense IMHO to spend a lot of effort and—po
by sedachv 10y ago
> One thing is to keep supporting something that costs hundreds of dollars (like an iPhone), but there is very little sense IMHO to spend a lot of effort and—potentially—make everyone's experience worse just because some users won't bother downloading a 50MB free update.
My browsing experience has been made significantly worse than it was 5 years ago by websites abusing new browser features. I have had to start running uMatrix to disable JavaScript except on whitelisted websites, and have had to start using youtube-dl to download videos instead of viewing them in the browser. Firefox Reader View is a must because of bad CSS everywhere. I use Firefox for most browsing but keep Chrome around just to view problem websites.
Most websites serve up text, the only reason they "need" new features is for serving intrusive ads. I also regularly use Lynx and think it continues to be a good browsing experience. Most websites can be (and historically are/have been) very usable and quick to navigate in text browsers. I continue to design personal webpages to work in text browsers.
- nkkollaw 10y agoTaking it as far as saying that they need new features just to serve ads, wow. The fact that web technologies have become powerful enough to make using complicated software a click away instead of forcing you to install a native app for every little thing..?
- Nadya 10y agoTake Twitter as an example - using older versions of Firefox. They claim that "videos are not supported in your browser" but on occasion the video begins playing before being paused. Sometimes the "what version is your browser" check takes long enough for the entire video to finish playing. The videos are obviously supported because they work! I know this because the same video that tells me "it isn't supported" will sometimes partially or completely play (so it isn't that different videos are being served differently). So why is Twitter telling me they don't work?
- nkkollaw 10y agoSorry, what's your point in relation to what we're talking about..?
- Nadya 10y ago>Taking it as far as saying that they need new features just to serve ads, wow. I'm agreeing with the GP comment - and that forcing updates on users that don't actually need to happen is for tracking/ad related purposes. Few sites need the new features and many are abused for tracking/ads - which is largely why the Battery API was removed. It wasn't being used for its intended purposes.