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by nahiluhmot 3996 days ago
> The BFED realises that while not all experiences will be identical, all browsers can be used to consume a website, even gasp, IE6 and below.

Where would we be if we supported all legacy software? Does there not come a point where cutting support for a class of platforms is a good thing? This article makes some good points, and I think a lot of frontenders (myself included) would benefit from being a bit more "boring", but this article is going a little too far the other way.
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minitech 3996 days ago
It’s not so much about supporting legacy software as having something that’s likely to show something in any browser, from Firefox to IE6 to Dillo to Lynx.
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akilism 3996 days ago
Am I supposed to worry about IE6 when Microsoft doesn't? Can we draw the line at supporting things when their creators give up on them?
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minitech 3995 days ago
The point of my comment was to say you don’t have to support old or obscure browsers specifically; just have proper content in your HTML and everyone will be satisfied without additional effort on your part.
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DCoder 3996 days ago
> Does there not come a point where cutting support for a class of platforms is a good thing?

For example: An article was linked on the HN frontpage a couple days ago about how CP/M reserved names (COM1, etc) still live on in ASP.NET MVC these days. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9871014

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