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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/3376057

I held off on Windows 10 for as long as I could until my job required it. Now this nonsense. I hope this isn't the start of them joining on the web DRM bandwagon.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As a web dev imma play devils advocate and say I get it. Cross browser support is hard sometimes and Firefox has some of the weirdest quirks.

That being said this isn't some hobby project its a multi billion dollar company so absolutely they could be doing better.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As a fellow web dev, I disagree! Cross browser support adds very little overhead in my experience, and not doing it in 2023 is really just lazy and unacceptable imo.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Back in the day it was harder, especially supporting IE 11-, but now since there are really only 2-3 rendering engines to develop for it shouldn't be as hard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Also, they already support safari which is the hardest browser to support of the group. Firefox support is trivial compared to making sure it looks good on safari.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed honestly the only ones I really run into nowadays are Safari issues

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is an incredibly weak excuse for a company like adobe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they should have the resources to hire pretty much the best devs, it's not like they are a startup or in some kind of backwater situation. They're an old company with a big name and a lot of money.