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Comment by mrspandex | Hacker News Reader

I'm so sick of websites not even attempting to render in a browser not in their whitelist. Please give me a button that says "I understand the risks, but I want to try anyway."

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We don't do that. We only discriminate against browsers we know will have problems. Like IE6-8. So what we're running is actually a blacklist.

If you show up with a browser that's not one of the big four, we're just letting you in on your own accord.

I completely agree that whitelisting for browsers is bullshit.

I think cutting IE 8 off is a little premature. I agree it's a hassle to support but I think of for example Rogers Cable, a client of mine still sitting on locked down XP across the entire office base. You just cut their 6000-ish employees off at the knees. They can't install another browser even if they wanted to, and I'm sure that same situation exists in a lot of other corporations.

The original Basecamp isn't going anywhere, so those 6000-ish employees won't be out a thing. They'll just need to advance a few IT years to be able to use Basecamp Next.

From the article:

"We know it’s not always easy to upgrade your browser (or force an upgrade on a client), but we believe it’s necessary to offer the best Basecamp we can possibly make. In addition, we’re not going to move the requirements on Basecamp Classic, so that’ll continue to work for people who are unable to use a modern browser."

Some people don't understand the risks, but have been trained to click the OK button. They will then complain when the site doesn't work and completly forget that they clicked the "i accept the risks button"

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