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I maintain the priamry website for a winterguard association in south texas. (Colorguard: choreographed waving of flags, usually alongside a marching band or pe

I maintain the priamry website for a winterguard association in south texas. (Colorguard: choreographed waving of flags, usually alongside a marching band or performed to recorded music.) Because it's an educational organization, we must assume that members are operating on outdated solutions behind weirdly restrictive firewalls. I don't bother to fully support Internet Explorer for all features, but I do need to make sure the critical path at least functions on a basic level, and I'm careful not to rely on any dependencies (analytics, etc) that I cannot self host. Of course, it's the directors who insist on doing everything on their iPad that give me more trouble, as I don't actually own one to test. :)

searchableguy 6y ago
> Of course, it's the directors who insist on doing everything on their iPad that give me more trouble, as I don't actually own one to test. :) Shouldn't they give you one for testing?
- saagarjha 6y ago
  Yeah, even new they're fairly cheap…
- zeta0134 6y ago
  Not really. :) This organization operates on a shoestring budget, and I volunteer my time to maintain their backend. On the odd occasion that the layout breaks specifically on an iOS device and resists local troubleshooting, I just borrow my Dad's iPad and check it there. I've had much fewer troubles since switching to Semantic UI's media breakpoints though; simply resizing my browser window to "tablet" size catches the vast majority of issues.
mdoms 6y ago
Why do you have to assume the outdated devices? Can't you just check? This information is available in http headers.
- zeta0134 6y ago
  I suppose we don't! Presuming these aren't bots, here's a count of every hit claiming to be trident (IE 8 - 11) just this month: #zgrep -i trident access.log*.gz | wc -l 580 It's not a huge number of visits to be sure, but we're also a rather small organization and in our off season, so we're not receiving a whole ton of traffic to begin with.

searchableguy 6y ago

> Of course, it's the directors who insist on doing everything on their iPad that give me more trouble, as I don't actually own one to test. :) Shouldn't they give you one for testing?

saagarjha 6y ago
Yeah, even new they're fairly cheap…
zeta0134 6y ago
Not really. :) This organization operates on a shoestring budget, and I volunteer my time to maintain their backend. On the odd occasion that the layout breaks specifically on an iOS device and resists local troubleshooting, I just borrow my Dad's iPad and check it there. I've had much fewer troubles since switching to Semantic UI's media breakpoints though; simply resizing my browser window to "tablet" size catches the vast majority of issues.

mdoms 6y ago

Why do you have to assume the outdated devices? Can't you just check? This information is available in http headers.

zeta0134 6y ago
I suppose we don't! Presuming these aren't bots, here's a count of every hit claiming to be trident (IE 8 - 11) just this month: #zgrep -i trident access.log*.gz | wc -l 580 It's not a huge number of visits to be sure, but we're also a rather small organization and in our off season, so we're not receiving a whole ton of traffic to begin with.