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troupotoday at 10:51 AM3 repliesview on HN

> People build web apps for an array of browsers and huge ranges of versions.

en masse they don't. They just target the latest Chrome


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threetonesuntoday at 12:25 PM

I agree and disagree, you can't target everything, but most (not shit) devs will target at least Safari - 1 or 2, simply because the iPhone market is too good to miss out on. And Safari being, well, Safari, means targeting that is a pretty safe bet for anything else.

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tylerchildstoday at 1:47 PM

I target IE6 and it just works everywhere

teaearlgraycoldtoday at 11:00 AM

De facto they do because functionality built three years ago and tested then is running along side functionality they built yesterday and tested on today’s Chrome.

People also do seem to test on iOS Safari because that pain in my ass needs special care on my software. So if a site works on it they either got lucky or tested on an iPhone. It’s generally only other people’s weird tech demo stuff that doesn’t work.