The article doesn't mention that it's not supported by other browsers. The two things (pushed by chrome / unsupported by others) are not consequential.
If you don't clearly state it and people start using the shiny new thing you're hindering the few alternative browsers out there.
Hi, while we're in beta we've been keeping things to Chrome only, as it lets us progress the product faster at this early stage. Specifically, this cuts out a lot of time spent on cross-browser testing and bug fixing and lets us focus on making sure we've got the right mix of features first.
It's the first time I've tried this approach myself, so it's a bit of an experiment, but I think it's been useful for this particular product. In saying that, we will be looking to offer wider browser support down the track, so stay tuned!
As a basically-everything-except-Chrome user, I'm increasingly skeptical of excuses this. There's almost certainly some feature(s) that you've spent a lot of time on that provide less value than having the app working in Firefox and Safari.
As soon as I saw it was Chrome only, I closed out.
Chrome-Brave, Chrome-Chromium, Chrome-Vivaldi, Chrome-Edge and other Chrome clones are no go because it entrenches Google monopoly and bad practices. IceCat doesn't exist on Windows.
There is really close to no choice for browser alternatives.
Do you have a link to the documentation? And if there is no documentation for this many year old project why is that? Is using it in this manor different than the explicit goals of that code (which from what I understand is to only support chrome)
Not only are there other browsers like Firefox and Safari, but there are other Chromium-based browsers like Vivaldi and Opera.
I would have liked to read about some expected use-cases in the readme.
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