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Re:Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications (2009) by lukan on Friday July 12, 2024 @04:51AM (#40943809)
"that can’t bother testing it on like 2 browsers"

Current browser market share: Chrome 64%, Safari 20%, Edge 5.3%, Samsung Internet 3.5%, Firefox: 2.2%

https://www.similarweb.com/browsers/

It is hard justifying extra effort for those 2.2% marketshare, unless you count in idealism. And most companies are there for profit.

Re:Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications (2009) by beretguy on Friday July 12, 2024 @05:10AM (#40943930)
There are only 3 browsers these days pretty much:

Chrome, Safari, Firefox.

It really shouldn’t be hard to test.

Re:Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications (2009) by lukan on Friday July 12, 2024 @05:16AM (#40943953)
Have you ever tested something in mobile browsers?
Re:Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications (2009) by lukan on Friday July 12, 2024 @12:46PM (#40947199)
Also, a quick test is easy. But a quick fix - often not so much. Unless you want to break something else.
Re:Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications (2009) by kaba0 on Friday July 12, 2024 @05:06AM (#40943906)
Edge and samsung internet are basically the same as chrome, so there are only 3 browsers to check. Especially that most stuff just works fine across the browsers, it’s not like cross-platform across OSs, it really is a bare minimum.
Re:Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications (2009) by ryandrake on Friday July 12, 2024 @12:46PM (#40947201)
> It is hard justifying extra effort for those 2.2% marketshare, unless you count in idealism. And most companies are there for profit.

To me, this attitude always sounds like a local business owner choosing to randomly kick 1 out of every 45 customers out of his store. Is it really that much time/cost/effort to test one more browser?

Re:Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications (2009) by lukan on Friday July 12, 2024 @03:16PM (#40948537)
"Is it really that much time/cost/effort to test one more browser?"

As someone who has over the years all in all spend months of work on catering to FF, I say yes.

It is not the testing. But the fixing of bugs that costs time. Time most buisnesses apparently rather invest elsewhere.