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Re:A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019) by socalgal2 on Friday October 17, 2025 @01:04AM (#45613452)
why can't they just serve different sites based on identifying the browser/app, and if it's old you get less features?
Re:A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019) by estimator7292 on Friday October 17, 2025 @01:12AM (#45613493)
That's exactly what they do. The hard part is making it work with fewer features
Re:A conspiracy to kill IE6 (2019) by troupo on Friday October 17, 2025 @01:57AM (#45613687)
And those fewer features are?

It's a site that shows a bunch of text, a few images, and then loads and plays video. What features does it need on a TV that it's so hard to implement?

Edit: I know which ones, and they have very little to do with Cobalt, but with the fact that even high end TVs are often worse than a Raspberry Pi, and can stick around for a decade. But this is nothing ditching Cobalt would fix.

E.g. you can't run 4k video on some models that can technically show it because there's not enough CPU and RAM to run the browser, the video, the decoder, and the DRM at the same time, the video stutters