Everything worked perfectly as it always does.
At least they seem to be working on it. Directing Firefox users to use a different browser in the mean time, temporarily, seems reasonable even if the language on that popup is a bit imprecise.
I did try adding a shirt to the cart and yeah, it added the wrong size. I’d have to switch to chrome to successfully complete an order at the moment. It’s unfortunate, but as long as they’re trying to fix it I don’t see any point in feeling outraged.
I did try adding a shirt to the cart and yeah, it added the wrong size. I’d have to switch to chrome to successfully complete an order at the moment. It’s unfortunate, but as long as they’re trying to fix it I don’t see any point in feeling outraged.
As a software developer, if just trying to add a single item to a cart is buggy, then that’s definitely something to feel outraged about, software development wise (not literally outraged, but definitely a strong “WTF!?” response).
It’s actually really amazing that a bug would manifest in one browser and not another, when just adding an item to a cart. You have to work really hard to make something like that not work correctly.
Yeah seriously, what is so special about what they’re doing here that it has a browser-specific bug?
This isn’t like 20 years ago where browsers had tons of experimental and custom extensions to HTML and JavaScript in them. It’s all standard now.
The bug is they can’t track you well enough
Absolutely no capitalization? That always makes me back away. You can’t even be bothered to make a proper sentence?
It’s a writing style. I like it. I even turn off auto-capitalization on my phone keyboard so my chats are all lowercase.
Chiming in to say that I agree with you! Texting in lowercase just feels right to me, especially with friends and family.
I don’t agree with you. But damn. you’re downvoted for doing what you like.
Yeah it’s a zoomer thing. Literally saw posts on Reddit about girls freaking out because some guy used that punctuation.
It’s time to get rid of the part of user-agent strings that identifies which browser you’re using. It should only include things like mobile/desktop, version of html supported, and JavaScript version supported.
It’s not that simple. A lot of browser “standards” are standards in that they achieve the same end result, but for whatever reason they take a different approach to getting to that result, so you often end up needing browser specific code. This is especially the case with CSS, which is why so many “standard” CSS properties still need a “-moz” or a “-webkit” version as well, decades in. The only way the website can know if they’re running the correct code for that browser is if they know what browser is being used, hence user agents. This is the reason that pop ups like this exist at all; sure they were lazy as fuck to not properly support Firefox, absolutely, but they wouldn’t have needed to support Firefox specifically at all if browsers could just get their shit together and fix the “standards”.
I would fucking cry tears of joy if browsers could standardize enough that writing browser specific code and needing the user agent was a thing of the past, but I really don’t see it happening any time soon.
There is no uniform “HTML version”, “JavaScript version” or “CSS version” that describes which web APIs are implemented. Browser engines support some features that others don’t support and vice versa.
Maybe that’s the problem though. W3C and their ilk needs to define which markup and features are part of a specific html version (5.0, 5.1, etc.) or CSS or JavaScript release. Lock that down and move to the next version. Declare your supported version in the agent string instead of wanting a specific browser engine like Chrome. Relying on Chrome is like the Internet Explorer debacle all over again.
If the app doesn’t the render the declared version properly, then that’s on the app. If the dev uses out of spec or experimental features, that’s on the dev.
I’d much rather see an alert that says “This site requires HTML 5.0.1 or higher” than “This site doesn’t work in Firefox.”
Definitely not.
I have to version check to workaround Chrome, FireFox and Safari bugs. Some things they fix and I can flag around version (eg: FF113 has buggy focus detection with Web Components), but some just have never been fixed (eg: Firefox does not support animated styles with CSS variables in Web Components).
That’s not to pick on FireFox. Chrome doesn’t support scrolling two elements simultaneously which breaks any type of fancy horizontal scrolling in horizontal tabs. Safari has some buggy implementation with ARIA tags for Web Components and [type=range] doesn’t follow spec for min.
If we were going to just not support new features because browsers are buggy, we’d never get any new features. It’s better to feature detect and that includes knowing what versions need workarounds.
Ugly clothes too
