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Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

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Post by CCs »

jonasvp wrote: post #81

Wow, talk about synchronicity... I put up our site doing the exact same thing last night ! Design-wise you're definitely ahead, however. :-) Our version is at http://www.browser-details.com . When you sign up you get your own subdomain - or you define a CNAME under your own domain [premium]. You can upload your logo, define a list of recipients, and your clients can send the browser details directly to one of those r…

Might be a bug: window size is incorrect with my setup.

AboutMyBrowser.com (correct):

    Screen Width	 2560

    Screen Height	 1440  

    Browser Width	 1932  

    Browser Height	 1271  

    Browser Top		 22
Browser-Details.com:

    Screen Resolution	 2560x1440  

    Window Size	 	 2560x1366
https://aboutmybrowser.com/4031483493

Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

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Post by kevin_p »

Might not work properly for users in China. It's telling me I don't have JavaScript enabled, when I do (Firefox on OSX, no weird extensions), and based on the tab bar icon is still loading after >2 minutes. Perhaps you're loading some blocked-in-China script that's preventing your page load event?

Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

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Post by kevin_p »

kevin_p wrote: post #162

Might not work properly for users in China. It's telling me I don't have JavaScript enabled, when I do (Firefox on OSX, no weird extensions), and based on the tab bar icon is still loading after >2 minutes. Perhaps you're loading some blocked-in-China script that's preventing your page load event?

Update: The page did eventually load and worked properly. I looked at your page source and found Facebook and Google Plus, which are both blocked here - that would probably be what was stopping it working before. Perhaps you should load these asynchronously, instead of waiting for them to load / time out before updating the information?

Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

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Post by ftwinnovations »

jonasvp wrote: post #81

Wow, talk about synchronicity... I put up our site doing the exact same thing last night ! Design-wise you're definitely ahead, however. :-) Our version is at http://www.browser-details.com . When you sign up you get your own subdomain - or you define a CNAME under your own domain [premium]. You can upload your logo, define a list of recipients, and your clients can send the browser details directly to one of those r…

Your design is definitely superior from a usability standpoint. Mad props to the OP for a nice site (though the reports of inaccurate reporting is alarming) but tomorrow I will be going your link to my phone girl. An example is the OP's large logo icon in the center of the page (serves little to no purpose) and the requirement to scroll the page to find extra info. Good on you man!

Edit: suggestion - allow the subdomian feature to work with www in front. A lot of the type of people who will be going to these pages will automatically type www dot in front and it bounces to the homepage. Still of course works, but removes the nifty send button.

Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

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Post by hoov »

dsr_ wrote: post #82

Let me make a suggestion: for reporting, return a URL with a set of word codes rather than numbers and letters. https://aboutmybrowser.com/dog_walrus_banana_door If you figure out a set of 1000 short words that are not too close to each other and easy to pronounce, four of them gives you a trillion possible combinations. If you window it so that the first word is always the same on a given day and keep a record of th…

This reminds me a little bit of S/KEY: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1760

Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

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Post by jonasvp »

ftwinnovations wrote: post #164
jonasvp wrote: post #81

Wow, talk about synchronicity... I put up our site doing the exact same thing last night ! Design-wise you're definitely ahead, however. :-) Our version is at http://www.browser-details.com . When you sign up you get your own subdomain - or you define a CNAME under your own domain [premium]. You can upload your logo, define a list of recipients, and your clients can send the browser details directly to one of those r…

Your design is definitely superior from a usability standpoint. Mad props to the OP for a nice site (though the reports of inaccurate reporting is alarming) but tomorrow I will be going your link to my phone girl. An example is the OP's large logo icon in the center of the page (serves little to no purpose) and the requirement to scroll the page to find extra info. Good on you man! Edit: suggestion - allow the subdom…

Thanks for the kind words and sorry to the OP for hijacking this thread. I was really just floored by the coincidence...

Great suggestion, by the way! I added this feature so now adding "www." will go to the subdomain as well.

Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

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Post by ashastry »

derleth wrote: post #124

500 Errors: Lynx on Linux: https://aboutmybrowser.com/1909674851 w3m on Linux: https://aboutmybrowser.com/1942341369 links on Linux: https://aboutmybrowser.com/3183933151 elinks on Linux: https://aboutmybrowser.com/3918182904 Also, it works just fine on Firefox with NoScript blocking JavaScript from your site.

Hi We have just fixed these errors. Please check it out..

Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

#169

Post by ashastry »

lordlarm wrote: post #80

With Maxthon I get "We're sorry, but something went wrong" ( https://aboutmybrowser.com/398693348 ) Also, why are you using (ugly) unofficial icons for some of the browsers (Opera for example)? :)

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Re: Show HN: We got tired of asking 'What browser are you using?' and created this

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Post by ashastry »

emilsedgh wrote: post #4

Seems nice. A couple of things: 1) It would be cool if it gets shorter urls so it would be usable on phone. 2) It detects Safari on Linux for me. Im using Konqueror. https://aboutmybrowser.com/848858317

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