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   Steve Hayes to ianng@austonley.org.uk   
   Re: FamilySearch introducing errors   
   16 Feb 22 07:45:27   
   
   XPost: soc.genealogy.computing, soc.genealogy.misc, alt.genealogy   
   XPost: england.genealogy.misc   
   From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 23:23:54 +0000, Ian Goddard   
    wrote:   
      
   >It seems to have gone from bad to worse.  Of the browsers I regularly   
   >use (I won't use Chrome or its derivatives) only Firefox now works.   
   >   
   >This seems to be a recent trend in web-sites: using developers who are,   
   >presumably young, inexperienced and not aware that the web was designed   
   >to provide a universal platform so that users with a wide variety of   
   >platforms could access the same material.  Too clever by half so not   
   >clever enough.   
   >   
   >A message to all web developers: if your site won't work on the user's   
   >chosen browser it's not the user's fault; it's yours.   
      
   Hear! Hear!   
      
      
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