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Fail: This web site only supports Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7

19 points by fosk 15y ago

adolph 15y ago
The first two words of the title make the warnings hilarious. "Electronic Diversity Visa Lottery" The warning may be for what they support. Safari worked fine (although I don't have a person to lookup, I used their sample data).
bryanlarsen 15y ago
Read "only supports" as "has only been tested with". I'm involved in an enterprise site that has the notice "has only been tested with IE8 and Firefox3.5", and I'm not going to apologize for that. Pretty much every other browser except for IE6 work fine, but unless it's been tested, it's broken.
- bryanlarsen 15y ago
  Ah yes, downvotes for disagreement. I know a lot of people will disagree with me, but I bet you haven't been involved in creating enterprise apps. Please keep hacker news civil and reply to comments you disagree with. Please only downvote stuff that is factually incorrect, rude, trollish, abusive or off-topic.
  - mixmastamyk 15y ago
    +1, downvotes should be used quite sparingly, but are given out copiously here. I often hesitate to write or reply when the risk of offending is so high. Makes for a lousy experience. Re: your comment, I'd say a friendlier way to characterize it is that QA isn't free, and so we choose our battles accordingly.
    - anamax 15y ago
      > I often hesitate to write or reply when the risk of offending is so high. Why do you care? Belay that. Stop worrying about it, or at least stop talking about it. It's a big world. There will always be plenty of people who don't like whatever you say so that's simply not worth worrying about.
      - mixmastamyk 15y ago
        Yes but in the world people don't take offense at bland statements and smack you upside the head as they walk by. I'd like not to care, but am not a sociopath.
      - voidr 15y ago
        > It's a big world. There will always be plenty of people who don't like whatever you say so that's simply not worth worrying about. Yeah, this is why I quit commenting on HN, because fanboys will always downvote without reason.
swlkr 15y ago
I routinely make sure that all of my websites ONLY render in IE6 and 7, that's best practice right?
gte910h 15y ago
I'd not be upset if "Fail" was added to a submission title filter.
artursapek 15y ago
Getting a social security number and signing up for secret service recently I've been shocked at how far behind the government is on the internet.
majmun 15y ago
nothing interesting here, everyone who writes web apps should know that testing for all browsers is very hard. it is esentially like writing 5 different apps. and probably costs like 5 apps. it is better to state that browser is not supported than something like "You need modern browser to run my site." and by modern means firefox.
alwold 15y ago
It is perhaps excusable to list a small number of browsers as "supported", but couldn't they at least test one browser that works on non-windows platforms?

19 points by fosk 15y ago

The first two words of the title make the warnings hilarious. "Electronic Diversity Visa Lottery" The warning may be for what they support. Safari worked fine (although I don't have a person to lookup, I used their sample data).

bryanlarsen 15y ago

Read "only supports" as "has only been tested with". I'm involved in an enterprise site that has the notice "has only been tested with IE8 and Firefox3.5", and I'm not going to apologize for that. Pretty much every other browser except for IE6 work fine, but unless it's been tested, it's broken.

bryanlarsen 15y ago
Ah yes, downvotes for disagreement. I know a lot of people will disagree with me, but I bet you haven't been involved in creating enterprise apps. Please keep hacker news civil and reply to comments you disagree with. Please only downvote stuff that is factually incorrect, rude, trollish, abusive or off-topic.
- mixmastamyk 15y ago
  +1, downvotes should be used quite sparingly, but are given out copiously here. I often hesitate to write or reply when the risk of offending is so high. Makes for a lousy experience. Re: your comment, I'd say a friendlier way to characterize it is that QA isn't free, and so we choose our battles accordingly.
  - anamax 15y ago
    > I often hesitate to write or reply when the risk of offending is so high. Why do you care? Belay that. Stop worrying about it, or at least stop talking about it. It's a big world. There will always be plenty of people who don't like whatever you say so that's simply not worth worrying about.
    - mixmastamyk 15y ago
      Yes but in the world people don't take offense at bland statements and smack you upside the head as they walk by. I'd like not to care, but am not a sociopath.
    - voidr 15y ago
      > It's a big world. There will always be plenty of people who don't like whatever you say so that's simply not worth worrying about. Yeah, this is why I quit commenting on HN, because fanboys will always downvote without reason.

swlkr 15y ago

I routinely make sure that all of my websites ONLY render in IE6 and 7, that's best practice right?

gte910h 15y ago

I'd not be upset if "Fail" was added to a submission title filter.

artursapek 15y ago

Getting a social security number and signing up for secret service recently I've been shocked at how far behind the government is on the internet.

majmun 15y ago

nothing interesting here, everyone who writes web apps should know that testing for all browsers is very hard. it is esentially like writing 5 different apps. and probably costs like 5 apps. it is better to state that browser is not supported than something like "You need modern browser to run my site." and by modern means firefox.

alwold 15y ago

It is perhaps excusable to list a small number of browsers as "supported", but couldn't they at least test one browser that works on non-windows platforms?