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"I only tested this in Chrome, using anything else is at your own risk" is fine. Life's short. "Needs feature X, only available in Chrome" is also fine. It's c

"I only tested this in Chrome, using anything else is at your own risk" is fine. Life's short. "Needs feature X, only available in Chrome" is also fine. It's clear and to the point and tells anyone who cares about browser Y exactly what's (probably) wrong. "Desktop Chrome only, everyone else go away" is contemptuously lazy. It really does reek of the IE days, for those who remember them, and is extremely off-putting. For me, this page doesn't do any of the above, it just does the best it can (which isn't really good enough on this phone). That's also fine. It's a phone, I get that it isn't good at everything.

julestothetee 6y ago
(Adding to your comment) It's not the developer's fault per se. If it's a pet project, it's arguably fine to cut the corner of cross-browser testing. The systemic problem is that Chrome has such high market share (like IE used to have) that developers are tempted to take such shortcuts. Do web developers have a higher social duty to test cross-browser during development? Depends on how strongly you believe in the dream of the web, I guess. Is it your duty not to litter in public? Sure. Is it your duty to pick up litter you find on the side of the street? Probably not.
googlryas 6y ago
I almost believed your post until I changed my useragent and saw the popup. There is a popup with the title: "Use Chrome on a desktop please!" with the text "Right now, the web version of Stamper is only supported in Google Chrome for desktop." That doesn't sound like a "Go away" to me. That sounds like a "We only support Chrome and so don't complain if its broken on something else". If it really was a "go away", they wouldn't even let you enter the app if you had the wrong useragent. Instead, you just click past the dialog and you get whatever experience your useragent allows with the code.

julestothetee 6y ago

(Adding to your comment) It's not the developer's fault per se. If it's a pet project, it's arguably fine to cut the corner of cross-browser testing. The systemic problem is that Chrome has such high market share (like IE used to have) that developers are tempted to take such shortcuts. Do web developers have a higher social duty to test cross-browser during development? Depends on how strongly you believe in the dream of the web, I guess. Is it your duty not to litter in public? Sure. Is it your duty to pick up litter you find on the side of the street? Probably not.

googlryas 6y ago

I almost believed your post until I changed my useragent and saw the popup. There is a popup with the title: "Use Chrome on a desktop please!" with the text "Right now, the web version of Stamper is only supported in Google Chrome for desktop." That doesn't sound like a "Go away" to me. That sounds like a "We only support Chrome and so don't complain if its broken on something else". If it really was a "go away", they wouldn't even let you enter the app if you had the wrong useragent. Instead, you just click past the dialog and you get whatever experience your useragent allows with the code.