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> Smart phone and web based offerings to do basic tasks of interacting with government, bank, shopping and similar services literally are unusable in many if no
by kmlx 4y ago
> Smart phone and web based offerings to do basic tasks of interacting with government, bank, shopping and similar services literally are unusable in many if not most cases for most over 70.
been working on the web for ~20 years now. the amount of debugging, switching devices, just general hacks i need to do in order to interact with certain websites is a bit crazy:
- open my desktop browser
- open a specific browser
- disable all extensions
- open a new private tab
- inspect element with the dev tools
- js breakpoints and fixing minified js code on the fly
- removing or adding css
- allow location/camera/etc permissions
all so that i can press a button on a website :))
i’ve always worked in small teams. and we always tested on all the browsers, on all the devices. manually and automatically. and this is every time we deployed.
how some of these broken websites get to see the light of day is just unreal.
- tester457 4y agoAre these websites big, or small local things?
- kmlx 4y agohuge, big, small, all of them, startup, fortune 500, international bank, local government services. errors occur due to a huge number of reasons: ISPs, lack of testing, connection issues, outdated tech, cdns, certificates, javascript, js minifiers, assumptions made by devs/po’s. basically the web is so huge and complex that websites will fail in any random number of ways.