Re:Google 'discourages' users of old browsers
by sigmaml on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @02:34AM
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And, in the same breath, could you also tell me which sites/applications you develop? That will help me avoid them!
This is precisely the kind of developer arrogance that I advise against in my sessions. Catering to a segment of population, or otherwise, should be a carefully-considered `business' decision. If you are making them based on your preference for OS X (or whatever) and your laziness to install a VM, you are actively inflicting harm on your business.
Re:Google 'discourages' users of old browsers
by pjmlp on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @07:24AM
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Good to you. I also don't test Safari.
Re:Google 'discourages' users of old browsers
by WorldWideWayne on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @12:31PM
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At least all you'd have to do is "buy an OS". I'd have to buy a whole computer to use an OS that I can't stand in order to test stuff on a Mac.
(But that's really living in the past. These days we have BrowserStack.)
I'm on OS X - if a browser doesn't run there, to hell with them. I'm not wasting the money to buy an OS I can't stand just to test a browser. I'm also not wasting time having to reinstall a VM every 30 days for the same reason.
When MS makes it painless to run IE on a Mac, then I'll actively test against it. I might not try to actively break it, but I'm not going to worry much.
And, thanks to Node-Webkit, anything that's critical can be wrapped up in an app.