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> Is reasonable to expect a company to go out of their way to spend resources fixing something that works fine for 94% of their users, using any of several alte
by sgift 3y ago
> Is reasonable to expect a company to go out of their way to spend resources fixing something that works fine for 94% of their users, using any of several alternate browsers?
Out of their way implies they have to do anything more than implement the standard and don't do browser sniffing, which has always been a bad practice and especially since feature testing has become more widespread. A sibling comment highlighted the part that it works if the user-agent is changed to Chrome.
So, here's my take to your original question: If a feature has a backing standard, companies, especially those above a certain size, should be forced to follow the standard for that feature and not include any kind of "only allow using this feature if we have tested it in the browser" code. If the company states they cannot do that (cause they have a policy to only allow features in browsers they've tested or whatever), they should be forced to support everyone.
Another good reason to force support for everyone should be if the company has their own browser.