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bossyTeacher ◴[] No.43573002[source]
Cool tool but it shouldn't matter whether the client is a browser or not. I feel sad that we need such a tool in the real world
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jimt1234 ◴[] No.43573475[source]
About six months ago I went to a government auction site that required Internet Explorer. Yes, Internet Explorer. The site was active, too; the auction data was up-to-date. I added a user-agent extension in Chrome, switched to IE, retried and it worked; all functionality on the site was fine. So yeah, I was both sad and annoyed. My guess is this government office paid for a website 25 years ago and it hasn't been updated since.
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1. IMSAI8080 ◴[] No.43573634[source]
Yeah it's probably an ancient web site. This was commonplace back in the day when Internet Explorer had 90%+ market share. Lazy web devs couldn't be bothered to support other browsers (or didn't know how) so just added a message demanding you use IE as opposed to fixing the problems with the site.
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