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by lysergia 1242 days ago
The 'Best viewed with Internet Explorer'[0] GIF triggers severe nostalgia.

IE was the dominant browser at the time, and these propaganda buttons just reinforced the idea that IE was the only browser you should be using. Still see the odd site saying 'Works best in Chrome' as if Chrome was the new IE.

Personally though, if your site is one of those annoying SPA (Single Page Apps) and doesn't work in Lynx[1], you're doing it wrong IMHO.

Nearly tempted to put a button on my sites saying: 'Best viewed in Lynx'.

[0] https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31/bestviewed.gif

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
3 comments
chunkyks 1242 days ago
Recently enough to have been unacceptable, the director of our internal apps team decided to only support IE when they redid the intranet site. This, in a place that installs Firefox on all endpoints and proxy logs showing less than 50pct IE usage.

He was unamused when I started posting "screenshots" with "best viewed in ie" logos added.

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jimmygrapes 1242 days ago
To this day I have encountered several sites (sort of public, behind logins) that refuse to load if "Gecko" is in the user agent and display variations of "This site requires Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge to work. Please install one of these browsers and ensure it is up to date to proceed."

A user agent spoof extension solves the problem because there's actually nothing used that Firefox doesn't support. Maybe there was, one day, but someone forgot to keep up, or didn't want to.

This has happened for me within the last 3 months with both a widely known financial application provider rhyming with "I'm a twit" and an educational software provider rhyming vaguely with "Crack jorts"

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Fnoord 1242 days ago
The Netscape banners do it for me, as the time when Netscape was dominant was a great time for me. The internet was a huge vault for me, and every time I dialed in I felt that rush. Every minute counted because we paid by the minute.

Netscape is also Mozilla's spiritual father.

Lynx didn't have JS support. Which was a blessing and a curse.

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