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"Sorry, Hoodsup is not optimized for your browser yet. We're working hard to make it work soon. In the meantime, please use Chrome or Safari"

in the meantime, ctrl+W. bye.

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I think for MVP sake it makes sense to make it work for people with modern browsers first. If it generates a passionate enough user base there, then they can put in the resources to make it compatible.

Sorry, webkit has won. Firefox and IE are slow, antiquated technologies. For an MVP product, it's just a waste of time to try to put in the dev effort to make things work across every browser. People who happen to be early adopters tend to be using Chrome exclusively (almost none use IE).

(i have no affiliation with Hoodsup)

I dunno, from my kind of ignorant position, FF9 seems light years ahead of previous versions in terms of speed & UI. I actually switched from Chrom[e|ium] to FF a couple weeks ago and haven't regretted it.

You're missing the point. The proper way to handle an allegedly unsupported browser is to degrade gracefully:

"I'm sorry, your browser may not be supported [Continue Anyway] [I'll Comeback Later]"

Otherwise, you permanently lose a lot of potentially users who have modern browsers.

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