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Re: There Is No Website

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Post by cyanydeez »

lionkor wrote: post #4
janice1999 wrote: post #3

> We highly recommend using Chrome! Er... what does this mean? Firefox is not supported? If so, the author should just say that.

Ah, yes, the web: Infinitely cross platform and portable, except "this website will only work if you run the js with this specific js interpreter, and also we dont know how to do css so we used very platform specific css, and also our html is not complaint but Chrome doesn't care, and also... but its cross platform. Its the web, it runs anywhere!"

Alas, broqs3rs are unable to do what every other universal run everywhete tech cannot do either.

Re: There Is No Website

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Post by cyanydeez »

whatshisface wrote: post #9
shreddit wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But who is to blame? I, the one who has amount x of time and wants to reach the maximum amount of people? Or the browser vendors for just doing the bare minimum to be compatible with each other but nothing more. The browser vendors do have a lot more manpower (and money) than me…

Firefox is the libre alternative struggling to compete with the Google behemoth which adds things to its browser even faster than they appear in the standard. Safari is the underfunded child of a corporation as wealthy as Google. It is mainly the first that motivates web developer solidarity.

Its struggling in part because it decided it needed to do a bunch of non browser things.

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Post by ironhaven »

Note for Firefox users, the "cat video" section is not working, and you will not be able to experience the rest of the app. You are supposed to break the player in a Google Gravity[1] like fashion, but it's broken. They should not "highly" recommend using chrome, but just say it does not work on other browsers.

[1] https://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google-gravity...

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Post by sigseg1v »

janice1999 wrote: post #3

> We highly recommend using Chrome! Er... what does this mean? Firefox is not supported? If so, the author should just say that.

I read this as "I had time to test it in Chrome so I can confirm it works in Chrome, but I don't have time or money to test on other browsers so I haven't specifically recommended those." Sounds totally reasonable.

Re: There Is No Website

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Post by spencerchubb »

janice1999 wrote: post #3

> We highly recommend using Chrome! Er... what does this mean? Firefox is not supported? If so, the author should just say that.

> the author should just say that

the author did say that, just in different wording

chrome and firefox are not the only browsers

Re: There Is No Website

#18

Post by immibis »

shreddit wrote: post #7
lionkor wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ah, yes, the web: Infinitely cross platform and portable, except "this website will only work if you run the js with this specific js interpreter, and also we dont know how to do css so we used very platform specific css, and also our html is not complaint but Chrome doesn't care, and also... but its cross platform. Its the web, it runs anywhere!"

But who is to blame? I, the one who has amount x of time and wants to reach the maximum amount of people? Or the browser vendors for just doing the bare minimum to be compatible with each other but nothing more. The browser vendors do have a lot more manpower (and money) than me…

Who was to blame for the Internet Explorer monopoly? This is just the same thing again.

Re: There Is No Website

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Post by sigseg1v »

ironhaven wrote: post #13

Note for Firefox users, the "cat video" section is not working, and you will not be able to experience the rest of the app. You are supposed to break the player in a Google Gravity[1] like fashion, but it's broken. They should not "highly" recommend using chrome, but just say it does not work on other browsers. [1] https://mrdoob.com/projects/chromeexperiments/google-gravity...

Should they also specify if it works in QQ Browser? What about Safari? Baidu Browser?

I argue that specifying where it doesn't work is pretty stupid. Just specify what you tested it on. It works on those and may or may not work on others. If you'd like it to work on other browsers you can see if you can contact the author to help them with financial support to get the other ones working.

Re: There Is No Website

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Post by hombre_fatal »

lionkor wrote: post #4
janice1999 wrote: post #3

> We highly recommend using Chrome! Er... what does this mean? Firefox is not supported? If so, the author should just say that.

Ah, yes, the web: Infinitely cross platform and portable, except "this website will only work if you run the js with this specific js interpreter, and also we dont know how to do css so we used very platform specific css, and also our html is not complaint but Chrome doesn't care, and also... but its cross platform. Its the web, it runs anywhere!"

This isn’t a very scathing point when it comes to hobby projects where someone has limited time to test in multiple configurations, so they recommend the one they use when they developed it.
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