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by maxloh 885 days ago
If you are a web developer, you would better develop your app using the latest dev tools and targeting the latest web specifications only.

Most companies don't prioritize legacy support, so there is no point in developing for Firefox ESR.
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Karellen 885 days ago
> Most companies don't prioritize legacy support,

On the other hand, the more legacy you support, the larger your potential customer base is. Also, if everyone else in the sector only supports the most recent release of only two browsers, you might have that extended customer base all to yourself.

> you would better develop your app using the latest dev tools and targeting the latest web specifications only.

That is one school of thought.

Another is that you should regularly use the oldest platform (hardware, OS, browser) that you want to support. That way you won't get to two weeks before release, decide you ought to test on a dual-core 4Gb machine like you were planning on supporting, and realise that although it technically runs, it's so frustratingly slow that no-one would want to, but there's not enough time to make the changes you'd need to get it working "acceptably". OTOH, if you were using it on hardware where it ran like a dog for you from the 3rd sprint, you'd probably have got round to making the changes for it to be acceptable on that era platform.

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maxloh 885 days ago
> On the other hand, the more legacy you support, the larger your potential customer base is.

It is more a decision about the trade-off between costs and benefits. Supporting really old browsers like IE is a pain in the ass.

> Another is that you should regularly use the oldest platform (hardware, OS, browser) that you want to support.

It is possible to manually slowing down your browser with dev tools. https://imgur.com/a/99XbwN9

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account42 884 days ago
> OTOH, if you were using it on hardware where it ran like a dog for you from the 3rd sprint, you'd probably have got round to making the changes for it to be acceptable on that era platform.

Or perhaps even made saner choices in the first place rather than rambling about "premature optimization".

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EasyMark 885 days ago
ESR isn't -that- old. jeesh. If you develop on ESR and it works well it's definitely going to work in something newer. However every web dev I know tries in multiple versions and multiple browsers.
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