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Got to respect dedication and hard work. But why doesn't his homepage support Chrome? https://kovidgoyal.net https://kovidgoyal.net Edit: I was referring to th

by elwell 7y ago

Got to respect dedication and hard work. But why doesn't his homepage support Chrome? https://kovidgoyal.net https://kovidgoyal.net Edit: I was referring to the alert() upon loading the site: W A R N I N G! Your browser is not supported by this site. I cannot guarantee that things will work as they should. Consider downloading either Mozilla >=1.4 or Internet Explorer >= 6

bla3 7y ago
Works fine over here.
- rammy1234 7y ago
  it works in chrome latest. from the website quotes " This website makes heavy use of DHTML and requires a W3C DOM (Level 1), CSS and CSS-P compliant browser. It has been tested on Internet Explorer 6 and Mozilla 1.4. For detailed site information click on the button. " Lot of simplicity just works. ( lot of work would have gone in 1990's to get this site up and running "
ihuman 7y ago
It works fine for me in chrome v77
Angostura 7y ago
I get that in Safari too.
dominotw 7y ago
> This site was made along time ago, when I was interested in web programming, using DHTML and javascript, long before the advent of modern cross browser techniques. As such, it's a bit of an artifact, showing what was possible, (with a lot of work in the 1990's).
- elwell 7y ago
  I figured as much. Don't get me wrong, I love it (in an excessively creative myspace kind of way).
- russdpale 7y ago
  Brother, this is a great site, don't ever change it! I liked some of your poems, and this line "fault tolerant quantum computers" Definitely made me raise an eyebrow or two.
icebraining 7y ago
Are you using macOS? He didn't test that: correctOS = (this.linux || this.win32)
kbutler 7y ago
Interestingly, it fails for me because of Mac, not because of Chrome: this.correctBrowser = (this.nav || this.ie); this.correctVersion = (this.nav5up || this.ie5up); this.correctOS = (this.linux || this.win32); this.supported = (this.correctBrowser && this.correctVersion && this.correctOS); A case of platform detection, instead of feature detection, and an illustration of how platform detection fails in future-proofing your code.

by elwell 7y ago

bla3 7y ago

Works fine over here.

rammy1234 7y ago
it works in chrome latest. from the website quotes " This website makes heavy use of DHTML and requires a W3C DOM (Level 1), CSS and CSS-P compliant browser. It has been tested on Internet Explorer 6 and Mozilla 1.4. For detailed site information click on the button. " Lot of simplicity just works. ( lot of work would have gone in 1990's to get this site up and running "

ihuman 7y ago

It works fine for me in chrome v77

Angostura 7y ago

I get that in Safari too.

dominotw 7y ago

> This site was made along time ago, when I was interested in web programming, using DHTML and javascript, long before the advent of modern cross browser techniques. As such, it's a bit of an artifact, showing what was possible, (with a lot of work in the 1990's).

elwell 7y ago
I figured as much. Don't get me wrong, I love it (in an excessively creative myspace kind of way).
russdpale 7y ago
Brother, this is a great site, don't ever change it! I liked some of your poems, and this line "fault tolerant quantum computers" Definitely made me raise an eyebrow or two.

icebraining 7y ago

Are you using macOS? He didn't test that: correctOS = (this.linux || this.win32)

kbutler 7y ago

Interestingly, it fails for me because of Mac, not because of Chrome: this.correctBrowser = (this.nav || this.ie); this.correctVersion = (this.nav5up || this.ie5up); this.correctOS = (this.linux || this.win32); this.supported = (this.correctBrowser && this.correctVersion && this.correctOS); A case of platform detection, instead of feature detection, and an illustration of how platform detection fails in future-proofing your code.