Re:Webflow – Interactions 2.0
by trizinix on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @02:02PM
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I signed up to try Webflow. Unfortunately Firefox is not supported. I guess the "Only works in Chrome" really is the new "Works best in IE6".
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Hey @trizinix, I fully understand and agree with your sentiment. History sure has a way of repeating itself. As one of the devs on the team who is primarily a Firefox user I feel this everyday. The primary reason we don’t support Firefox is due to our usage of custom scrollbars: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77790#c188
You can vote for this issue on our Wishlist to help get Firefox support prioritized on our roadmap: https://wishlist.webflow.com/ideas/WEBFLOW-I-17
(Fwiw the published sites from Webflow do fully support Firefox, just the Designer itself does not.)
I usually don't post seemingly pedantic comments on HN, but I have to call you out here. You guys are blocking users from using your application in Firefox because of scrollbar colors? That seems like a terrible choice given it is probably alienating a good chunk of potential users.
On that note, can a screenshot be provided in Firefox with the Webflow designer, provided the code functions? If it's really just a scrollbar issue, and the UI is that bad according to the Bugzilla comment, can we see how it looks?
Here's a little screen capture of what Webflow looks like in Firefox https://cl.ly/3J0c2v2Y093O — the scrollbar causes quite a few issues with layout, but also we have to take into account the fact it's also a different width, which doesn't play nicely with drag 'n drop.
What would HN be without pedanticism? ️¯\_(ツ)_/¯
We’re also more than just “guys”.
Well people: it's "pedantry" and you ought to support Firefox without people voting on a roadmap. I mean I feel an Ed Reardon scale rant coming on...but no...gone.
most people aren't going to get the ed reardon reference.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006r5ck
the full series is available from the usual places.
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Do you folks need a custom scrollbar? Is it functional in any way?
We have a few senior developers who develop Webflow in Firefox.
So yeah, right now we have soft support for Firefox and definitely want to move that to official support, especially now with Firefox gaining much deserved momentum.