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It's a chance to do good in the world. Throw in some legacy detection and spit out a big message to legacy users to upgrade to a modern browser.
by jsprogrammer 11y ago
It's a chance to do good in the world. Throw in some legacy detection and spit out a big message to legacy users to upgrade to a modern browser.
- jacquesm 11y agoThey are using a modern browser. Modern => something that was produced in the last couple of years. That the computer industry still can't get stuff right and forces users into an upgrade (which may or may not work, could quite possibly lead to a borked browser or even a totally borked system leading them to have to 'upgrade' to a more modern operating system, which in turn may require them to shell out money for new hardware) is no reason to push the responsibility for the laziness of web developers onto the end users.
- sago 11y agoAnd if they can't upgrade, or won't, or don't want to, or don't trust you to tell them to install something? We went through this years ago with IE6, there were always plenty of devs with variations of "screw 'em", but blaming or penalising users for their set up is a bit of a dick move, and shutting out or inconveniencing a big chunk of potential market is not a good business strategy. There does come a point where the cost of supporting a browser exceeds the value of the people using it, but I'd be surprised if most sites have hit that for IE8 (the third most used browser, more than twice the market share of the most used firefox).