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With so many new features being added to browsers lately it is easy to forget, that not all browsers on old devices are updated, be it older iPad or even laptop
by butz 5y ago
With so many new features being added to browsers lately it is easy to forget, that not all browsers on old devices are updated, be it older iPad or even laptop with ChromeOS. Dear web developers, please don't forget to add fallbacks or polyfills for older devices.
- wahnfrieden 5y agothis news is also relevant to wkwebview users
- jeroenhd 5y agoThat's the risk you take by buying iPhone or ChromeOS: you're buying into a platform where you don't have the option to find alternatives for "core" system functionality. I care as much about outdated browsers as I care about Internet Explorer. If you want a modern experience, buy devices that allow you to update the browser (or complain to your manufacturer that you can't). Every other website has given up on my old second hand iPad, there are no new apps available for it and the old APIs are all shut down. Why should I still care about it as a web developer? It's still a nice device to read PDFs on.
- Jyaif 5y ago> you're buying into a platform where you don't have the option to find alternatives On ChromeOS devices you usually can install a regular linux distribution though.
- jeroenhd 5y agoNot on all models (especially not on the older ones), and even then it's unnecessarily complicated by design. There are workarounds that come with a performance impact, but most Chromebooks aren't exactly powerful machines. A shame, really, because Linux could keep the Chromebooks that have somehow become too outdated alive for a few more years. Luckily Safari (and to some extend Firefox) is out there lacking common features that were in Chrome years ago, so polyfills will probably still be used for a few years.