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Canvas by Instructure, one of the largest LMS (learning management system) in the world officially supports all major browsers. Unofficially schools tell stude

by tmpz22 2y ago

Canvas by Instructure, one of the largest LMS (learning management system) in the world officially supports all major browsers. Unofficially schools tell students to use Chrome because some tasks fail often outside of Chrome. In particular Safari's default settings for cookies/privacy often causes the system to fail - particularly with integrations that use iframes/popups and other antiquated tricks. The year is 2024.

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lxgr 2y ago
I'm actually less surprised about this in 2024 than I would have been for a webapp in 2014. I feel like we peaked somewhere around the mid 2010s with regards to application compatibility: No more Flash, but also more than just 1.5 rendering engines. Before that, it was all "oh, sorry, Windows .exe only"; since then, "sorry, Chrome visitors only".
- jwells89 2y ago
  It was nice. As long as you weren't doing something totally inadvisable like using IE 7 or something, things generally worked fine. Blink, Gecko, WebKit, whatever. Even random tiny FOSS browser projects wrapping somewhat outdated builds of WebKit or Gecko worked ok the majority of the time as long as you spoofed the user agent string of one of the big guys.
  - wwweston 2y ago
    People put serious effort into even IE compat for a while. AFAICT the beginning of the end came with trying to do battle with mobile browsers; you simply couldn’t debug all the potential problems well enough. I remember burning a month on a regression that affected only iOS before Apple fixed it. Of course people were going to eventually pick an easy standards based target and tell everyone else to pray.
- meroes 2y ago
  Idk 2015 was when I had to use Firefox for Dyanmics CRM, IExplorer for several specific things, and Chrome because it was faster for the rest.
mondobe 2y ago
After using Canvas for 2 years, I haven't had any problems with Firefox (except for the Lockdown Browser feature our school used to require, which I think is being gradually phased out).

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lxgr 2y ago

I'm actually less surprised about this in 2024 than I would have been for a webapp in 2014. I feel like we peaked somewhere around the mid 2010s with regards to application compatibility: No more Flash, but also more than just 1.5 rendering engines. Before that, it was all "oh, sorry, Windows .exe only"; since then, "sorry, Chrome visitors only".

jwells89 2y ago
It was nice. As long as you weren't doing something totally inadvisable like using IE 7 or something, things generally worked fine. Blink, Gecko, WebKit, whatever. Even random tiny FOSS browser projects wrapping somewhat outdated builds of WebKit or Gecko worked ok the majority of the time as long as you spoofed the user agent string of one of the big guys.
- wwweston 2y ago
  People put serious effort into even IE compat for a while. AFAICT the beginning of the end came with trying to do battle with mobile browsers; you simply couldn’t debug all the potential problems well enough. I remember burning a month on a regression that affected only iOS before Apple fixed it. Of course people were going to eventually pick an easy standards based target and tell everyone else to pray.
meroes 2y ago
Idk 2015 was when I had to use Firefox for Dyanmics CRM, IExplorer for several specific things, and Chrome because it was faster for the rest.

mondobe 2y ago

After using Canvas for 2 years, I haven't had any problems with Firefox (except for the Lockdown Browser feature our school used to require, which I think is being gradually phased out).