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I may be misinterpreting the article, but isn't that just graceful degradation?

• kijin 12y ago
  Except the degradation isn't particularly "graceful". Google just seems to be sniffing the user agent and sending different content.
  • cromwellian 12y ago
    Capability checks and run-time tests can only go so far. You end up with a bewildering array of code path fallbacks and polyfills that massively complicates the readability and maintainability of such apps. I realize web developers think it's kind of marvelous and cool and philosophically pure to serve one page that scales from Netscape 1.0 all the way up to today's bleeding edge mobile browsers, but realistically, it is better to focus team resources on different tiers of functionality and in effect, write two or more difference pages optimizes for different scenarios.
• leexedeX 12y ago
  Considering that all the features in the regular version still work (at least in Opera 12), it really isn't. I'd rather be able to still use the old browser, with the understanding that features might break, instead of Google intentionally breaking features.