• JshKlsn@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’ve had a few websites tell me to view their website in Chrome. I just leave, because no way am I putting any kind of personal data into a website run by such incompetent people.

    I used to be a web developer. Back 8 years ago, you used to have to do a lot of special tricks to make your website look and function the same in all the browsers. Now, you really don’t. Unless you’re using some really obscure closed source codec or something, websites literally render and function properly without needing any browser specific code fixes.

    There’s no excuse, unless you’re blocking older versions of every browser for security reasons, which is fine, because browsers update automatically these days, and it’s very rare for someone to be running a really old version.

    • Programmer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Usually the thing about the webpage not working is just codeword for “we have not tested it and we won’t”. If you really need to access it, there are some extensions that can change your user agent so the page thinks you are in chromium.

      This is the one I use.

    • Koordinator O@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I use an user agent switcher in those cases. Most of the time it works and I dont have to change the browser.

    • lieuwex@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      This is not fully true. Recently I had problems with keyboard press event propagation working differently on button elements and CSS scroll snapping behaving differently when new items are appended in the scroll container. Both are not really obscure.