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No. There has to be a cutoff. "any device age" includes my old HTC Desire HD. And it's downright stupid to optimise for it unless you have a very good reason.
by gherkinnn 5y ago
No. There has to be a cutoff. "any device age" includes my old HTC Desire HD. And it's downright stupid to optimise for it unless you have a very good reason.
Some features are too practical not to use. And some features are next to impossible to enhance progressively without introducing more bloat. There's not really a gradient between "no wheel" and "wheel".
If that Desire HD is not part of your target audience then there's no reason to pay the price to optimise for it.
- forgotmypw17 5y agoYou call it stupid... I call it lazy, insensitive, careless, and perhaps a smidgen of incompetent. :) I don't know my target audience ahead of time, and I want to be prepared for them, known AND unknown. Your HTC Desire HD is welcome and supported on all my websites, and the fact that you have one is reason enough for me to support it. I think it is a really shitty and rude thing to tell the user that their browser, device, configuration, etc. is "not good enough", because most of the time they have no control over it, and you're denying access to the people who need it the most. When you've got a fast desktop to develop on and a decent salary to switch out your phone every year or two, it may be difficult to relate, but there are millions of people out there using five-year-old devices and struggling extra unnecessarily, and I refuse to add to the problem. It has the nice benefit most untested devices and platforms also working, as well as nice accommodations for retro-computing enthusiasts.
- gherkinnn 5y agoWorks for me. By going one way or the other, we select our own customers.
- forgotmypw17 5y agoTo me, they're not customers, but readers and humans.