Re:Google 'discourages' users of old browsers
by tracker1 on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @07:12PM
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As I said... web based applications... In other words, I had to interact with both models.. I created some simple box abstractions, but something as simple as a dynamic form (certain inputs visible based on others) was pretty much a pain, since you couldn't break a <form/> across multiple segments in NN4.
That doesn't even get into more complex interactions, or the flicker when making UI changes dynamically. For some things I simply re-wrote frame content client-side as it was faster with less "flicker" than trying to manipulate the DOM nodes.
Doing async stuff was interesting, post queues to frames, with the response wrapped similar to jsonp.
I don't miss those days at all...
On the other hand, those differences are likely to be mostly cosmetic - this was a time when JavaScript was very little-used and pages were still mostly static with little in the way of style, so they were still quite usable across browsers despite looking different.
Now that pages are more "appified" there is far more than can break, because of the larger dependence on JavaScript and CSS.