Re:Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utili...
by brailsafe on Monday May 16, 2022 @05:39AM
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Do you have WASM enabled? A cursory search indicates it's not on by default
Re:Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utili...
by Terry_Roll on Monday May 16, 2022 @06:39AM
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I know its off, I have lots of things switched off, my point was the message wasnt that useful and one way you could improve the message to guide potential visitors to help them switch it on, if they wanted to, was to use the bug detection to really test if the browser is what it say is before giving the guidance to switch on stuff in a browser. Over engineered perhaps, but still valid.
Re:Ask HN: Can you share websites that are pushing the utili...
by brailsafe on Monday May 16, 2022 @06:24PM
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I suppose technically it's imprecise, but erring towards cautionary rather than suggesting they switch stuff on. Someone comfortable with switching stuff on might go looking for it if they know what's up.
I used to do more precise messages like you're suggesting, but such a make or break feature I'd probably just be vague about it. MS edge incidentally is fine. It does what it does.
Its the latest MS Edge, but a handy trick you might be interested in is to use detectable bugs to fingerprint a webbrowser. So Internet Explorer 6 might have a browser detectable javascript bug that 8 didnt have, or a bug might exist in IE but not firefox and if someone changed their browser agent ie firefox pretending to be IE, it was still possible to workout what the browser was and deliver code accordingly. :)
Of course some web browsers could be like looking at A Scanner Darkly character!