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That's very unfortunate for the 0.00042 Norwegians who were going to use this web browser.
by speedgoose 6y ago
That's very unfortunate for the 0.00042 Norwegians who were going to use this web browser.
- sk0g 6y agoNot supporting websites from a fairly big country with a strong economy is a failure on their part, either way. I bet they support TLDs like TV (Tuvalu), or IO (Indian Ocean Territory).
- baal80spam 6y agoNo, they don't. This is the default setting file: .com .net .org .co .io Just add a TLD, restart and voila.
- sk0g 6y agoIs this to help with security? A rather restrictive and somewhat US centric whitelist. And then there's IO.
- Jaruzel 6y agoNo .gov ? Maybe that's a good thing /s
- gvjddbnvdrbv 6y agoNo .co.uk? No .gov.uk? No .ac.uk? No .uk? Wtf?
- scoopertrooper 6y agoI think the joke was that the user base of the browser was small, not that Norway was a small country.
- sk0g 6y agoWhat's the reasoning behind blocking, apparently, all but 5 TLDs? I could see sketchy ones like XYZ being blocked, but the default whitelist is a bit... Bare.
- t0astbread 6y agoWhy even block any TLD entirely and not just malware domains?
- scoopertrooper 6y agoNo idea, but my point (and I think the point of OP) was that people shouldn't treat some rando's side project with the same amount of scrutiny as they might a new release of Firefox.
- kube-system 6y agoI would guess the reason is that it’s a small project that few people use and nobody noticed the problem before this thread.
- int_19h 6y agoI think it's one of the features that were added to differentiate this particular MSHTML-with-address-bar from countless others.
- scoopertrooper 6y agoThis is obviously some person's side project to test a bunch of ideas. One of which was to add in TLD whitelisting, so they came up with a couple of TLDs to whitelist with the intention of expanding it once it went viral on hackernews and they were bought out for a billion dollars by Walmart's venture capital vehicle.
- dependenttypes 6y agoNon-Norwegians do not read the blog of the creator of CSS, right? https://www.wiumlie.no/en https://www.wiumlie.no/en