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steve_laracasts's avatar

Spark / Nova Browser Compatibility

Hello,

I've been looking for an answer to this and can't find anything anywhere.

What are the Browser requirements for using Spark/Nova? How far back does compatibility go? What technologies are required for full operation?

Can anyone help please?

Thanks!!

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steve_laracasts's avatar

No-one know anything about backwards compatibility?

What am I missing? Is this a helpful community or am I wasting my time?

steve_laracasts's avatar

What is the problem here? I can't believe that no one knows what the limits of these apps are?

This is really weird and strange, I feel like I am being ignored and like I annoyed everyone by asking a question, is this not allowed here?

How am I supposed to get support?

Can someone please help?

Feeling very unwelcome right now :(

jlrdw's avatar

Look at the packages that makeup Nova for example and you will have to go to the sites and research browser compatibility that would be my guess anyway.

As an example Tailwinds you would have to go to that site.

Anything I program I don't use any packages I use standed regular old CSS.

As example https://github.com/tailwindcss/tailwindcss/issues/32

Seems they have no regard for older browsers, Where as a company like FedEx maintains a lot further back browser compatibility Remember they have customers all over the world with many older browsers.

You have to remember the majority of people on this forum is only going to use the latest thing.

steve_laracasts's avatar

Thank you @jlrdw - I really appreciate your reply. Definitely a good guess... but this is clearly going to take some time to resolve to a suitable answer. I am surprised no one has asked this before and it doesn't form part of the documentation.

I am personally very much of the opinion that everyone should be using a modern browser, and of course I want to use all the latest and greatest, but at the same time have some obligations to support clients in 'locked in' environments, hence my asking about this.

Anyone else have anything more definitive, or even anecdotal evidence perhaps?

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