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Think of all the webpages that tell people to look for a padlock icon in their browser? All the books, all the training materials, videos, etc. This doesn't se
by mattl 4y ago
Think of all the webpages that tell people to look for a padlock icon in their browser? All the books, all the training materials, videos, etc.
This doesn't seem like a good idea at all.
- post-it 4y agoThey'll change. Maintaining backwards compatibility with third-party training material is the least-useful form of maintaining backwards compatibility.
- computerfriend 4y agoThat advice didn't seem to be a good idea.
- mattl 4y agoIt's still true of virtually every browser other than future versions of Chrome and possibly browsers based on Chromium.
- djur 4y agoThat advice has been deprecated for years and has never been sufficient. The reverse is true now: the browser will warn about an insecure connection.
- shadowgovt 4y agoThis is forever the problem with documentation: it checkpoints a description of a system at a point in time. You can make an extremely valid similar argument regarding C++ tutorials written in 1995, but the end-response is the same: "Update your sources, learn the new thing, and most importantly don't assume anything computer-related that is more than 5 years out of date is relevant, especially for something Internet-related."
- mattl 4y agoOkay but unless other browsers make the same change now you have two sets of information and now users need to know their underlying browser's engine too?
- shadowgovt 4y agoThat's going to be up to the other browser vendors. Some would argue that multiple approaches to these problems is a virtue of the ecosystem. (I'm not sure I'm one of them, but if one accepts that premise than "This documentation varies based upon what browser you're using" is an expected side-effect).
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