Gregory's Server
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 @luciedigitalni LOL I contacted them back in 2023 about this. "Thanks for reaching out. Fortunately the issue we had has now been resolved and we’ll need to update the on-page messaging – our payment provider had issues with Firefox and we were waiting for them to fix it up. Once again, thanks for flagging this with us and we’ll get this updated as soon as possible!" Apparently ASAP wasn't *that* quickly 🤣  @duncan_bayne @luciedigitalni Project manager: "Hmm I'll file this as nice-to-have along with all the accessibility issues" @luciedigitalni@aus.social Id go as far as saying that if its only compatible with firefox and chromium-based browser its not well designed @luciedigitalni but... Firefox is just about the only real alternative browser left? Is this run by Google?  @luciedigitalni Internet Rule #?: If your site is « incompatible » with any mainstream browser it goes on my DNS blocklist to never be visited again…  @erik @luciedigitalni The problem with this is that Firefox is less and less of a "mainstream browser" each passing year, and moving towards a very niche "also ran". @ticho @luciedigitalni Some truth there, but I'm not looking forward to a monoculture based on Chromium (+WebKit in minor measure) @erik @luciedigitalni Me neither, I'm a long-time firefox user, but it's getting more difficult. @luciedigitalni I got a think like this about updating the version of Firefox I had. Trouble with that advice is that I'd updated Firefox a couple of minutes before I got the message.   @luciedigitalni heh I raised hell about this kind of stupid on the amsat.org mailing lists when an incompetent web designer "improved" their web pages. The designers name was well known to be incompetent by others.. @luciedigitalni given that FF is about 3% of browser usage, I doubt that Kennards, or anyone else, cares I might even go so far as to speculate that FF users are on avg problem customers, demanding high quality, and therefore are a drag on profits @luciedigitalni It's like 1995 again with all the "Best viewed in Netscape 5" images plastered everywhere. @luciedigitalni and there is a 99.98% chance it will work totally fine if you can be bothered enough to spoof the user agent  @luciedigitalni Interresting... I wonder if this may be why the one site wouldn't give me information... If that's the case... It would be nice for them to say *why*. Yeah, I was just looking for information, but I do know that it breaking, based on browser, and *not* telling you that's the issue... Um... "inclusive design?" Or something?  @luciedigitalni I am seeing this more often. There is no reason to do this in 2024. 1998 when Mosaic and IE had different ideas about what HTML is.... sure...  @luciedigitalni Instead of investing time and effort to make such #FUD popups they should.fix their #shitsite!  @luciedigitalni Seriously, there are 2.5 major browsers. It's not that hard to support them. Especially since W3 standards have been around for freaking ever now. Devs no longer have the excuse of writing for IE's weirdo systems that basically broke W3 standards on purpose back in the day. At this point there literally is no reason to not work on basically any browser. @nazokiyoubinbou @luciedigitalni sadly, the excuse is often that it would expand the test matrix beyond what the business side will pay for. Someone will use browser market share stats to justify not covering anything other than chrome and safari. Not that I'm speaking from experience *ahem* @thatdosbox @luciedigitalni And this is why a lot of people over the years have been forced to spoof their browser IDs. Which just makes it worse. *Sigh* |
@luciedigitalni worth steering clear of due to the owner's dodgy political views as well imo