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wizzwizz4today at 12:04 AM1 replyview on HN

As a rule, you should not add functionality to a website to compensate for browser misfeatures. People who want the browser to work differently can get a different browser: that's why we call them "user agents". Making the web all complicated like this mainly serves to make it harder for people to use alternative browsers, or for browsers to change their misfeatures without breaking compatibility.


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seg6today at 12:57 AM

Fair enough, that criticism resonates. I've decided to keep this behaviour only in the extension and have reverted it from the blog. Thanks!

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