Comment by neohaven | Hacker News Reader

Comment by neohaven | Hacker News Reader

Direct quote from the page at the other end of this link :

"You appear to be using a browser that may not be able to display our site correctly. Generally, this is beause it's an older browser that doesn't support a lot of the newer, awesome features in open Web standards.

Rather than provide an untested and possibly subpar experience of our site, may we suggest downloading one of these fine browsers? (We think you'll find your overall experience of the Web will improve if you do.)"

This is followed with links for Firefox and Chrome. I am running Firefox 24.4 from CentOS repos. This is unskippable, and there's no simple way to bypass it on the page. On a browser from March of this year.

Urgh.

Since it's only a plaintext page, you can read it with curl. Or you could, except the server is broken and sends back gzipped data even if the client doesn't request it.

    curl https://www.pandastrike.com/posts/20141113-bastion-hosts | gunzip | more

I shouldn't have to grab a page curl to see a website. A disclaimer of "Hey we notice $X is your browser, maybe switch to those?" with a "No thanks, I'll deal with it" option on some modal JS dialog.

Yeah. Welcome to the world of an HTML 'standard' that is 'living'.

TBH, > 6 months old is hopelessly outdated. Welcome to the future, grampa.

Some of us are using browsers imposed upon us by $EMPLOYER, and may not be able to update of our own volition.

I think Firefox 24 is still supported for a few more weeks, as it is a "long term" release.

The point of those LTS browsers is so that an employer doesn't have to watch for UI changes in their browser every 6 weeks, and then retrain all their staff when the browser moves things around or makes things look different.

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