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I'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt in my mind here but this is a tough one to explain away.
by davesque 10y ago
I'm trying to give the benefit of the doubt in my mind here but this is a tough one to explain away.
- adrianpike 10y agoMaybe they're injecting a brazillion polyfills if it's not a known user-agent?
- madmulita 10y agoYet, it works as expected without the polyfills.
- DoctorOW 10y agoRight. But he's suggesting that if they don't recognize the browser that they inject as much polyfills as they can so everything works no matter what.
- popey456963 10y ago100MB? Assuming they're using GZIP, that's normally a 10% compression ratio, leading to about 1GB of actual data. Let's assume this data is stored as 8 bits, that's about one hundred million characters of code! Maybe what they're doing is downloading the entirety of Windows XP (roughly a gig in size), running it in JavaScript and then rendering the page in Internet Explorer within their version of XP.
- skylan_q 10y agothe benefit of the doubt Normal corps generally don't deserve this, nevermind MS.
- polotics 10y agoStopped giving Microsoft the benefit of the doubt in 1999, never regreted it.
- blahblah12 10y agolol, It wasn't nefarious read the reddit thread.
- polotics 10y agoWhatever: incompetence or foul play, doesnt matter because I'm far away.
- ErnestedCode 10y agoI'm guessing that the customer service rep has no idea what the term "User-Agent" refers to. He just saw the word "Linux" in the post and then replied with a canned response.