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by grezql 2821 days ago
Doesnt even work on firefox or IE. It tells me to use Chrome which I recently ditched due to privacy violation concerns.
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I don't see problems here. It's a tech pilot, not a product. The goal is to prove it viable, maybe the team size is even small. Spending much time on browser compability too early may not be that wise if they just need hundreds or thousands of testers.
It's amazing how Chrome has become the Internet Explorer 6 of the modern web era.

Instead of ActiveX I wonder what would be an appropriate way to describe it.

Trojan?
This is literally testing streaming to Chrome. I'm guessing that optimizing this required some serious client side support, so it would make sense why it would only work for Chrome. That being said if it takes off, I can easily other browsers supporting a standard.
It is an outrage. I also opened it on Lynx, and all I saw was some weirdly rendered characters. Why, Google ?