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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@rysiek@mstdn.social  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

No, your website is not "working correctly" unless it is working correctly on two *different* rendering engines.

I lived through the IE6 era, I do not want to live through that kind of bullshit again. And trust me, neither do you.

#WebDev

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kimapr
@kimapr@ublog.kimapr.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 hours ago

@rysiek i’d argue it should be 3 different engines even, if a website works on firefox and chromium but not safari/webkit it’s still broken

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Caden
@tarix29@tech.lgbt replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@kimapr @rysiek fair, but it's a lot harder to test for that one given that you either need specific hardware, or you need to get an ISO from someone with specific hardware and run a VM, which is against Apple's EULA

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kimapr
@kimapr@ublog.kimapr.net replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

@tarix29 @rysiek you don’t need apple-specific hardware to use webkit. you can just grab GNOME Web, Midori, surf, or any other of the billions of open source webkit-based browsers

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Thanasis Kinias
@tkinias@hcommons.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@rysiek
what was *fun* was trying to make a site that was standards-compliant and used CSS properly but also rendered as intended on Netscape 4

so many tears caused by Netscape 4 back when I was doing webdev stuff...

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Anthropy
@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@rysiek I can still hear the developers from back then yelling "just use a shim! a shim will solve everything! shims! shims stacked on shims! more shims!" which I still feel is how that whole "1kb website with 1mb worth javascript" era began we're still in today drgn_drowsy

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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
@rysiek@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@anthropy for real. Sometimes shims were necessary, but man were they overused.

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