Re:Workarounds for Opera Mini
by pmx on Friday December 25, 2015 @06:42AM
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It's not fair to blame web devs for not trying to support a browser that doesn't try to support any standards. We have clients pushing us for cool things that they have seen on other sites, or some interesting (to them) feature that they must have. If we refuse? They go to someone more accommodating.
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Then implement them in a way that allows for graceful fall back to just text, etc.
Easier said than done. For a trivial combination, it's easy. For most real world requirements it becomes a combinatorial explosion of various strategies that are mutually exclusive in many parts.
Unless you have some new machine learning approach to work out all the platform quirks and arrive at pure fallback nirvana?
Doesn't GWT have something that does pretty much exactly that ?
Use progressive enhancement, not fallbacks.