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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by Avamander on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @07:49AM (#35801196)
I'm not trying to excuse Google, but feature detection is really hard and browsers sometimes suck with their APIs.

I just recently started using a modified version of the "h265ify" add-on that just advertises support of a few extra codecs (HEVC and surprisingly MPEG-2) to websites. With both Edge and Chrome, I do that because I know the formats work but the API doesn't indicate they do.

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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by dsr_ on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @08:10AM (#35801368)
There's no excuse for not being able to read the user-agent strings of the top five browsers in the world, especially when 2 of them (at least) are your own code base.
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Re:MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge a... by TheCoelacanth on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @12:12PM (#35804141)
Everything is hard if you don't want to do it.
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