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I'm interested in how they managed to cleanly remove the entire meat of the blog post without damaging any other aspect of the site. Is JavaScript really that ... petty ... or did they have to work hard to achieve that effect?

Judging by what w3m and lynx show me, they're doing User-Agent sniffing to serve up pages. Isn't that a violation of the Geneva Convention at this point?




"Your browser is not supported. The latest version of Safari, Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer is required ..."

They have no good reason behind whitelisting browsers.


Also:

> The latest version of Safari, Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer is required

I see two browsers on a fairly fast release schedule. Do they really update their User-Agent filter on Firefox's release cycle? On Chrome's release cycle? At that point, they might as well be specifying patch levels; pick a minimum version and keep with it.

Or, you know, design a site up to modern standards, because if you absolutely need everything in the HTML5 spec to host a blog you might as well actually listen to a web dev once in a while.


Broken in android for me too. (htc desire, gingerbread, Browser)

Not all of us are on the iphone. I guess the audience is being selected.




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