The article offers you the choice to keep mindlessly browsing. What we have now it's not really an option. This would be like nutritional warnings for apps.
I don't get it. Are we going to use 20 year old computers in the future? Is Netscape 2.0 the only browser we will only have?
Even if we want to support 100% of users and don't think about economics I really doubt there's going to be someone with Netscape 2.0 visiting your website nowadays.
With Moore's law, you'd have 2^10 more computing power after 20 years. So you would definitely not have used a computer from 1985 in 2005.
However nowadays, I imagine we're getting maybe 2^3 every 20 years, by the way things are looking. And the baseline is much more capable.
So I wouldn't be too shocked if a desktop from 2021 is still usable in 2041. I was occasionally using a desktop from 2009 until 2019, and it was ok for web browsing, movie watching, editing some documents, etc.
> Are we going to use 20 year old computers in the future?
I hope so. If it weren't for the ever-increasing bloat, on both webpages and webpage-as-an-app's, it wouldn't be a problem. What can you do today with your computer that you couldn't have done 20 years ago? ("Looks better" doesn't count)
>Well, I use it, so your doubt is obviously disproven.
Do you really? And if so, who cares? (I mean "who as in which webmaster would even care?" not as in, "are there any niche enthusiasts that do?").
When the parent says "is anybody", they mean "are any significant numbers". So, yeah, maybe there is 1. Or 10. Or 100 if we're generous. I doubt there are 1000 (and the website stats can easily verify it), and they surely aren't any number big enough to care about.
But even more importantly, there's no technical, ethical or other rule to say "you need to cater to the person using Netscape 2 in 2021" anymore than there's one saying "You need to sell music in wax cylinders, lest someone who still uses such a player comes to your shop".
If it was an accessibility or poverty argument sure. But it's surely not poverty the reason why someone keeps using Netscape 2.0 in 2021.
My other comment addresses your questions. Did you find it?
To summarize, if I can accomodate that one user, whatever their reasons or situation, which I do not pretend to know, instead of turning them away, then I will invest my time and effort in that.
And where Netscape 2.0 can go, so can probably another browser and configuration I,m not even aware of or anticipating.
> In this paper, we raise design issues and present
recommendations; for clarity we say “never” for
design choices that are inappropriate for dependable
or safety-critical applications. For novelty and other
non-dependable applications, obviously examination
of cost and design trade-offs may lead to other
decisions, and such decisions should be backed by
competent empirical evaluation.
I cannot choose another language, some weird css/html issue happens that hides all other fields. Looks like an overflow:hidden hides the possible selections.
It has to do (I think) with Dash's columnar layout which unfolds the menu over the next few columns at least in Chrome.
The quick workaround I found was to type out the language until it appears below and click on it or finish typing, then press enter. This should select it.
I'd love to hear from other Dash developers who've had, and solved this issue.
Not even the government uses backups... crazy. Imagine other issues like privacy, I do not expect them to be compliant. They do not look to be that different than an average citizen at least in IT terms.
The big thing is that government organizations are very complicated, and due to bidding processes, have a lot of different vendors with different solutions involved. Vendors respond to proposals with complete bespoke solutions that may or may not integrate well with existing infrastructure design, and then some of those vendors are actively resistant to changes that integrate them in.
It's really fun explaining to a vendor that 1. A system is going to be domain-joined so it can be managed and monitored. 2. The users will not have administrative rights to the machine. 3. The vendor will not have the ability to remote access the machine whenever they want. 4. Security software and policy settings will be applied to the machine. It continues to amaze me how often these four items absolutely blow the minds of the vendors I've dealt with.
Infrastructure and operation of PNC has been outsourced to Logica (now CGI, since 2012). It's not operated by the government itself.
I consider it par the course, though in this case I cannot be objective as my $CurrentCorpo had to kick off CGI/Logica early by 2014 from multiple projects - for, appropriately, gross incompetence in managing their own data centre (a redundant data centre in Wales that goes down for a week due to border routers being out of commission and failover problems tends to ruffle some feathers at high levels, when you asked and paid for for 99.95%+ SLA).
I thought the same... 'Let's make sure the maps we know and love' gets remade by me and you guys come to my version because I won't give the repo code url.
