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[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 365 points 1 year ago

The U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) provides a comprehensive set of standards which guide those who build the U.S. government’s many websites. Its documentation for developers borrows a “2% rule” from its British counterpart:
. . . we officially support any browser above 2% usage as observed by analytics.usa.gov.

Reminder to self to always use FF when visiting .gov sites.

[-] yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml 140 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the excerpt. I initially interpreted the title as US government agencies will stop using Firefox, not US government agencies will stop requiring their web masters to test in Firefox.

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

I’d imagine that effectively means agencies would stop using Firefox, if they can’t use it on their own sites.

[-] _s10e@feddit.de 29 points 1 year ago

Websites built for Chrome do work in Firefox.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Maybe like 98% of the time.

[-] yo_scottie_oh@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Fat chance they’re actually using Firefox in the first place. My money’s on Chrome or IE.

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Government IT worker here: IE was dropped off almost all DoD computers years ago when MS officially ceased support of it. Edge, Firefox, and Chrome come standard with the baseline image at most sites I've supported.

I think this article is also pretty silly. We have scientists, engineers, accountants, logistics, etc. all using various web apps and sites. Rather than fuck around with installing a browser that may or may not be compatible with any of them, we had our image team blanket install Chrome and Firefox to avoid unnecessary tickets. Just because government websites may not require designers to be compatible with Firefox doesn't mean anything for all those federal jobs that don't only use government sites for work.

[-] SuperSpaceFan@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I thought that too. Poorly worded title.

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

tbh I already editorialized the title a bit to make it less exaggerated, wasn't sure how far to take it.

[-] akilou@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 year ago

Reminder to self to always use FF when visiting all websites.

^except the ones that only work in chrome

[-] kttnpunk@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

*especially! Spoof user agent if you have to.

[-] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

if you spoof your user-agent it won't help Firefox in metrics, since websites will think you're other browser.

[-] fristislurper@feddit.nl 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nono, the other way round. Visit it with chrome and spoof a firefox user agent, so it looks like you used firefox, while you can still use the website.

[-] kttnpunk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well I only suggest it for sites one has to use, and even then I think it would still show google people are fed up with their shit

[-] ripcord@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

Or just in general

[-] YerbaYerba@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

I visit weather.gov around once a day on both mobile and desktop Firefox.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

I'll be over here making sure they still got a sliver of Mosaic in their logs.

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I actually did that today before reading the article.

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