> It strikes me as ludicrous that in this day and age, people still go > with the idea that they have to support a browser make/version instead > of supporting an engine
Flutter is a Google project, I’m neither shocked nor surprised (only disappointed) that they do this. Flutter even got forked Flutter devs, see [1][2]. I don’t know how far the two codebases have drifted or if Flock (the fork) even supports other browsers. [1] https://getflocked.dev/blog/posts/we-are-forking-flutter-this-is-why/ [2] https://github.com/join-the-flock/flock Eoghan > On 12 Jun 2025, at 05:50, Tarquin Wilton-Jones via Therion > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Flutter web apps are expected to run on a list of browsers available at >> https://docs.flutter.dev/platform-integration/web/faq#which-web-browsers-are-supported-by-flutter > > > I had a feeling this would be their fault not yours. > > Aside; > > It strikes me as ludicrous that in this day and age, people still go > with the idea that they have to support a browser make/version instead > of supporting an engine. Unless there is something extremely browser > centric that they are relying on (such as demanding that the browser > build behavioural profiles about the user for advertising purposes, > which should be internationally banned), there is absolutely no reason > to "support a browser". Just follow a spec. If a browser engine fails to > follow a spec, detect that difference and code for that in a branch. > Don't detect one vendor and assume you can predict the future. > > Anyone who makes a project that "supports Chrome" but needlessly sniffs > and disables itself or does something stupid in other browsers that use > the same engine, should not be writing code for public consumption. They > are stuck in the 1990s browser wars, and need to learn how to code > properly. Vivaldi, Opera, Brave, Edge, and well over 100 other browser > apps, all use Chromium. They would all work perfectly well with > something like this, if they were allowed to do so. > > /rant > _______________________________________________ > Therion mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.speleo.sk/listinfo/therion _______________________________________________ Therion mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.speleo.sk/listinfo/therion
