Re:What was Syria like before the war
by madiathomas on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:10AM
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It isn't mobile only. I visited it using Chrome Version 58.0.3029.110 (64-bit) on Windows 10. Works fine.
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Version 58.0.3029.110 (64-bit), except I'm on a Mac. Is it possible they've got a bug that misidentifies Mac browsers?
Re:What was Syria like before the war
by madiathomas on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:23AM
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They probably assumed everyone using Mac is using Safari. I have seen lots of code shared on programming forums that simply check for Mac and assume the person is using Safari.
It's not a mac problem. I'm on a mac. The site doesn't work in Chrome, but it does work in Safari.
Then you should read better "programming forums", because I haven't seen anything like that since the late 1990s, and it's preposterous to think that something produced with this level of quality would commit such atrocities.
Also, it does work on Chrome, Chromium, Firefox.
Re:What was Syria like before the war
by madiathomas on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:57AM
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One of those forums was Stackoverflow. I don't know a better programming Q&A forum than SO. Please share so that I can switch to them.
The site didn't work for Chrome on Ubuntu either with the same version. Firefox on Ubuntu worked though.
Re:What was Syria like before the war
by IIIIIIIIIIII on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @02:10PM
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No, same problem here with latest Chrome on Windows 10.
Re:What was Syria like before the war
by raverbashing on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:13AM
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Version 57 on Mac. "Older device or Web browser"
Edit: updated to 58, still get the message. What a joke
Edit2: Worked under FF on Mac
I am Win10, Chrom 58, same message. Yeah, what a joke.
Re:What was Syria like before the war
by madiathomas on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:58AM
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Maybe it is a load balancing strategy. Randomly tell people that they need a modern browser to control trafic.
Re:What was Syria like before the war
by madiathomas on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:25AM
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Maybe they are sniffing for OS and assume you are using Safari.
Re:What was Syria like before the war
by unicornporn on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @05:21AM
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For me it didn't work in Firefox on macOS, but it worked in latest Chromium. What a mystery.