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Re: 98% isn't much

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Post by egorfine »

epolanski wrote: post #107
egorfine wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I still have significant traffic at some clients from IE9 It's been 15 years since IE9. Where do you draw the line?

Depends on the revenue they bring vs the cost of serving them. It's highly dependent on market/business/company. Often you simply don't offer the feature. E.g 3d rendered previews may not be available but product configuration and cart keeps working on a shop selling custom showers (you fallback to dynamic static images). In real estate a page displaying fancy maps with price statistics by area/neighborhood might be…

> Depends on the revenue they bring

Fifteen years! Unless it's a government agency what's the point even in doing business with a company that uses 15 y.o. browser? They will pay you in silver coins according to 2011 prices.

Re: 98% isn't much

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Post by flerchin »

londons_explore wrote: post #79

In today's world of AI it's fairly easy to make your site compatible with every version of internet explorer ever. Just tell the AI to do it. It'll find a way. The maintenance burden for you will be minimal because the AI can keep the legacy compatibility bits in sync.

Good luck bro.

Re: 98% isn't much

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Post by msephton »

mghackerlady wrote: post #61
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't 誘惑 more like “allure, temptation, seduction”?

My Japanese is very bad, but I think it would be translated back into english as 'the allure of 66%'

There are many ways to translate it "66% Seduction", "66%'ll do" etc. But debating the translation misses 66% of the point that it's just a fun fact ;)

Re: 98% isn't much

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Post by [deleted] »

VladVladikoff wrote: post #41

I usually go by CanIUse's global percentage when deciding if I can utilize a new browser feature, and right now it's 90.81% ( https://caniuse.com/css-nesting ) That's a bit lower than I would be comfortable with, however not that bad, we have been even considering switching all our images to AVIF: https://caniuse.com/?search=AVIF And google uses Webp all over the place and that's sitting at 96% https://caniuse.com/we…

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Re: 98% isn't much

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Post by mghackerlady »

msephton wrote: post #124
mghackerlady wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My Japanese is very bad, but I think it would be translated back into english as 'the allure of 66%'

There are many ways to translate it "66% Seduction", "66%'ll do" etc. But debating the translation misses 66% of the point that it's just a fun fact ;)

Of course. I just wanted to flex my (not very good) Japanese skillz B)

Re: 98% isn't much

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Post by shooly »

xdertz wrote: post #78
Panzerschrek wrote: post #62

There are cases when providing service for remaining 2% isn't profitable. It's better just say "sorry". I used to work in company where we have spent a lot of time making custom fixes for our software in order to work-around wired hardware/software bugs on machines of individual customers. Yes, we provided service for remaining 2% or so, but in cost of slowing-down overall product development and not making our produ…

So how about also getting rid of all regulations for wheelchair friendly infrastructure while we are at it? Way too expensive and it is even less than 2% of the population that requires it.

People in wheelchairs literally need them to live, they have no alternative.

People who don't update browsers for years (or even decades) do so willingly.

Re: 98% isn't much

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Post by msephton »

mghackerlady wrote: post #126
msephton wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are many ways to translate it "66% Seduction", "66%'ll do" etc. But debating the translation misses 66% of the point that it's just a fun fact ;)

Of course. I just wanted to flex my (not very good) Japanese skillz B)

I appreciate them! Keep at it :)

Re: 98% isn't much

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Post by greenie_beans »

> 98% is great for exceptionally good things, like dramatically increasing someone’s quality of life, but very low for basic expectations, like a baby surviving a babysitter taking care of them.

this is your brain on data science. so absurd that i laughed out loud when i read "like a baby surviving a babysitter taking care of them" like what is that phrase doing in this sentence and argument

Re: 98% isn't much

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Post by BoppreH »

VladVladikoff wrote: post #41

I usually go by CanIUse's global percentage when deciding if I can utilize a new browser feature, and right now it's 90.81% ( https://caniuse.com/css-nesting ) That's a bit lower than I would be comfortable with, however not that bad, we have been even considering switching all our images to AVIF: https://caniuse.com/?search=AVIF And google uses Webp all over the place and that's sitting at 96% https://caniuse.com/we…

Be careful with new image formats because they also have to be supported by the rest of the user's workflow. The browser might display it, but if it cannot be added to the photos app, or it's not understood by their image editor, or cannot be shared on their preferred chat app, then that's a fail.

WebP is especially hated for this among non-techies (31.8k upvotes, 1 month ago): https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1trpuvr/...

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