` Chris Baker wrote:
If you are a developer and you're using a 3 year old browser to work,
I humbly suggest you are doing it wrong. I keep a computer around with
FF 3.x to check my work, but there is absolutely no reason, as a web
developer who spends all working hours on the internet, to refuse the
updates to your browser. You're missing all new HTML 5 specification
implementations, for starters.... you guys are morally equivalent to
people who still use IE 6! Come on... update your software. As a
technical person, should know better.
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But I'm NOT developing FF 4-7...
I use FB to figure out why web pages I'm visiting today don't work...
Sometimes they look for other browsers (more rare these days), or they
expect me to have 3rd party cookies enabled, or they expect my machine
to have no firewall, or to permit access to all
scripts/sites w/no control...
These are unrealistic expectations in my environment. But they are used
to dealing with the masses who don't secure their machines and come to
expect such in order for their sites to function. So I have to use FB
to break into the code at a certain point to see why it is failing and
how to work around it --- sometimes by allowing more permissions, or
sometimes by blocking other pieces of code ... or occasionally (if it
important enough), by writing some custom css or js rules that execute
on that site.
My browser isn't 3 years old, it was downloaded last week -- new version
3.6.21 or 22?
But to expect me to debug websites that don't work with 3.x using a 6.x
or 7.x browser is
unrealistic. What type of developer would do something that lame?
It is RARE, that I encounter a website that will only work with a newer
browser, it's usually something much more mundane, like 'expectations of
no security', that are at the root.
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