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Slightly unrelated rant: Perhaps the title can use the disclaimer [Chrome Only]. Am I the only one that thinks Chrome took IE's place in the new "Best Works i
by cooldeal 14y ago
Slightly unrelated rant:
Perhaps the title can use the disclaimer [Chrome Only].
Am I the only one that thinks Chrome took IE's place in the new "Best Works in IE" flashback from the early 2000s?
I use Opera and while it's disappointing that support is lacking I do understand that it's a fringe platform at this point.
But is it too much to request submitters of articles like this one to specify which narrow set of browsers they support? I feel like a fool after clicking through and expecting to see the cool effect or whatever and it does not work in my browser most times without even an error message. If you link to a web page without specifying the browsers it supports, it should work in most modern browsers, just Chrome doesn't cut it. At the very least the web page should have the decency show a JS alert saying the web site does/may not support your browser. Who am I kidding, maybe I should just switch to Chrome because web devs are too cool to do that.
- bmelton 14y agoAt the risk of sounding contrarian, this isn't a web page -- it's a Chrome plugin. By its very nature, there's only one browser it's supposed to work for. I generally agree with the sentiment, that people should be writing cross-browser code, but this is more akin to complaining that your iPhone app doesn't work on my Android.
- ges 14y agoAgreed! Done.
- mtgx 14y agoIt's an extension not a website. It used to be that you could only do something like this for Firefox. Now you can do it for both Chrome and Firefox, but Chrome seems to be more popular with HN developers.
- StavrosK 14y agoDon't Chrome plugins work with Opera with minimal modifications? I was under the impression that the APIs were standardized or largely compatible.