3 ms·
A car from 1950s and up is quite serviceable today, and I think we're getting to the same place with computers. I don't buy things on principle (freganism/volu
by forgotmypw17 5y ago
A car from 1950s and up is quite serviceable today, and I think we're getting to the same place with computers.
I don't buy things on principle (freganism/volunteerism), so I'm restricted to hand-me-down computers, and I've been quite happy with this for the past 7+ years.
Of course, my work is mostly text-based, but I'm quite happy with a high-end 6-year-old computer today, and before this was using an 8-year-old computer low-end computer with some obstacles.
I think that as a web developer, I can promote this idea further by leaning hard into the accessibility and compatibility spectrum, really embracing "Any Browser" 100% and leaving no browser, client, user, scenario, network condition, etc. behind.
And I do. All the sites I develop, as well as the framework I use for them, are guaranteed compatible with Netscape 2.0+, IE 3.0+, Opera 3.0+, and pretty much everything that's come since then, including text-mode, no-JS, and screen-readers.