"Hey friend, it looks like you are using Opera. Beware, pal, that we don't go to the opera down here on the ranch, so there may be rough-riding ahead! Try one of these nifty browsers buddy, or sally forth into the unknown. OK, pardner?"
You can put all the disclaimers you want before a use and they will "venture forth into the unknown". However, they will ignore (if they even read/understood it) your warning and then bury you in support tickets, complain loudly to their friends, and leave you with a mess to deal with and no real clean/easy way out.
And lest anybody say it won't be that bad, yes it will be that bad. There are some remarkably vitriolic people on the internet.
I second this... users rarely read anything & remember even less. If you let them in, then they expect it to work. Its unfortunate for Opera, but we're doing the same for our beta launch.
> then bury you in support tickets
After all, Myspace has a commonly-used bug reporting functionality.
> complain loudly to their friends
Because they won't complain about being locked out?
This is a preview. Complain if they launch publicly like this, otherwise, cut them some slack.
Re:Myspace previews complete redesign
by frozenport on Monday September 24, 2012 @10:17PM
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IT WILL BE TOO LATE IF WE COMPLAIN WHEN THEY LAUNCH PUBLICLY.
I'm picking on websockets because that's what's been annoying me at work lately, but it's just an example. the myspace demo doesn't even use websockets, it's totally irrelevant, but websocket support is a good cursory indication of whether or not it is a modern browser, and therefore how much development time will be added by officially supporting it.