• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
    70·
    3 days ago

    I hate this type of unsupported page shit. Give me a banner saying it’s unsupported and let the browser still try. Most of the time it will still work.

    Artificially blocking usage entirely is a bad user experience.

    • Aeri@lemmy.world
      18·
      2 days ago

      Call me crazy but I think that computers volunteer way too much fuggin information when connecting to websites. User agents as we know them shouldn’t exist, the website should have no DAMN clue what kind of device I’m using.

      I’ve always been creeped out by stuff like that old form signature that would show what your IP is and stuff, i always hated how the facepunch forum would expose your OS for no real reason and you cant choose not to display it.

      • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 day ago

        User agents are a mess that is half blatant lies on a good day. Blame early browsers (*cough* Internet Explorer *cough*) for being outdated or not standards compliant, so websites started serving different code based on reported user agent, leading browsers to start adding random crap to their user string to fool sites into giving them the right code so they’d work properly.

      • elephantium@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        old form signature that would show what your IP is and stuff

        Wait, where was this? I’m drawing a blank.

        • Aeri@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 days ago

          Any site that let you set a forum signature. It didn’t really tell the person who had it what your IP is but it’d be a little emoji guy holding a sign that says like “I see you! Your IP is so and so on browser in country”

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 days ago

      What is there to support anyway? It’s just a page of links. It’s not as if it required some super high tech stuff.

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      Neat. I had an aunt that used WebTV.

      Personally I never got to experience the internet from a 480i CRT myself, because my family always had a PC growing up. Closest I ever got was connecting my PSP to wifi back in the day. But then I got a smartphone shortly after and the rest is history.