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There are free, legacy-compatible operating systems (Linux) that have modern browsers and work on a huge range of hardware. Creating sites that are compatible
by antihero 13y ago
There are free, legacy-compatible operating systems (Linux) that have modern browsers and work on a huge range of hardware.
Creating sites that are compatible with super-old browsers is costly, and makes development of things like JS based webapps either complex or not even possible.
Why should we spend money or time fixing things for a tiny percentage of the population who have options?
- blahedo 13y agoWell, that's why it's not the case that every application and website should worry about it. Which is why the OP's project is so nice: it abstracts the problem into an emulator, so one person can worry about it and solve it for (to a first approximation) all sites on the one side and all legacy browsers on the other side.
- clarry 13y agoDo you really think these modern browsers work on a huge range of legacy hardware?
- antihero 13y agoA good enough range. They'd run on a $25 Raspberry Pi.