That’s why I was making a point of noting you guys take the right path. Vintage hardware and retro battle stations are kept useful thanks to graceful degradation. I like how Discourse still Runds smooth on an iMac bought in 2010, it saves me from the temptation of going on to the BBS on my company MacBook Pro. I also have a MacBook Air and an iPad, but the old iMac is still sitting on my desk, right there in my home office because it has the CD/DVD drive.
I find LinkedIn’s approach harsh, because people who need a new job may not have modern hardware. Sure, warn them that things may not work, but nothing on LinkedIn is so vital it can’t be polyfilled. For me it’s a minor annoyance since it works in Chrome and Firefox, but that minor annoyance is valuable to me. It reminds me to keep the less tech savvy in mind in my own front end coding. And how time has flown since I got into web coding in 1997.
