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0 pointspolitician13y ago0 comments

> don't test, but let the site degrade gracefully

In practice, graceful degradation requires testing.

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I chose the wrong words, my meaning was that they should allow non-WebKit browsers the chance to render the site and if they fail, they fail. Forwarding the browser to another URL because you whitelist only a couple of UAs is a bad bad idea.

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0 pointspolitician13y ago0 comments

> don't test, but let the site degrade gracefully

In practice, graceful degradation requires testing.

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MatthewPhillips13y ago

I chose the wrong words, my meaning was that they should allow non-WebKit browsers the chance to render the site and if they fail, they fail. Forwarding the browser to another URL because you whitelist only a couple of UAs is a bad bad idea.

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