Re:Living without the modern browser
by OldSchoolJohnny on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @01:07PM
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Yeah there are a lot of ivory tower developers here with little to no real world experience and have never done anything of any substance or complexity pushing their tiny limited experience and knowledge and you can spot them from miles away in these comment sections. Those of us who work in the real world know how silly some of these comments are.
Please don't post personal attacks here; they contribute nothing to the discussion.
I think you have a duty to your client to tell them why they should be paying you double to do the job right. If they don't, well, Hacker News is full of people like me to shame them for excluding people from using their website.
Re:Living without the modern browser
by spookthesunset on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @03:01PM
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> If they don't, well, Hacker News is full of people like me to shame them for excluding people from using their website.
And the absolute number of HN people like you shaming folks for not supporting text-mode browsers like lynx is a rounding error for most websites.
Okay, example: client pays me to make an somewhat interactive website. Client wants it to be done using React as that is easy to get other devs for in the future, if the need arises. Client doesn't want to pay double (random estimate) to make everything behave in e.g. Lynx. Do I do it out of pocket, or just say no to the client?