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One example is dropping support for older browsers. Dropping IE support is better DevX because debugging esoteric IE bugs is very time consuming. But if you hav
by noahtallen 5y ago
One example is dropping support for older browsers. Dropping IE support is better DevX because debugging esoteric IE bugs is very time consuming. But if you have a lot of people using IE, dropping it is worse UX for them, especially if they are using IE6 from a very old OS and can’t get the latest browser.
So at that point, the balance becomes “ok, if less than 1% of requests come from this browser, we don’t explicitly support it.”
- no_butterscotch 5y agoThis is similar for Android developers. How soon can we drop support for Android OS #? Because # doesn't have the easier to use animation API, or because we'll need to display an extra modal, or some such.
- msh 5y agoThat can just as well be a business decision. We have X budget for this website, we currently have > X expenses so what can we cut. Then cutting the difficult browser is not a hard decision.
- judge2020 5y agoThis is how it works and HN complains about it a lot, ie. when some service or program doesn't support Linux or Firefox.
- bmicraft 5y agoLinux is very much understandable, but Firefox still has a considerable user base, between 3 and 5 pct depending on who's counting; Double that if you only target desktop. Considering the support burden of Firefox should be minimal, I can't really see those business justifications
- Jensson 5y agoWhy should they prioritize support for a small browser that encourages you to block ads? Doesn't make business sense to me.
- pja 5y agoMy guess is that the majority of web sites out there with any kind of custom dev work behind them are not relying on ads for revenue. Eg Netflix doesn’t care about ads - they care about supporting their customers whereever they happen to be. Supporting (or not) Firefox is still a business decision of course, but it has nothing to do with ad-blocking.
- rjsw 5y agoA sports organization that I know seems to have bought a website that won't work with any browser, every User Agent that I have tried causes an error. It still seems to download a fair bit of Javascript so I guess a developer had to write it at some point.