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1. Walter van Holst (whvholst@eupolicy.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 08:00:43 JST Walter van Holst

   So, after half an hour fighting with the European Commission's website to provide feedback on the draft-proposal of the Cyber Resilience Act, I tried in Chromium and went through swimmingly. What does this tell us about how serious the EU institutions are about reigning in Google's quas-monopoly if the same institutions cannot be arsed to make their websites work on browsers like Mozilla Firefox?

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 08:34:28 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     • Sparr

     @sparr @whvholst I'd say testing 2 of the 3 incumbent browser engines is a good sampleset!

     And if its breaking in Firefox I can't trust it to run in the more esoteric engines...

   • Sparr (sparr@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 08:34:33 JST Sparr

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     @whvholst Epiphany is a Linux (etc) web browser that uses the same rendering engine as Safari.
     Edge is available, in a dev version at least, for Linux.
     Or just use third party platforms to check. If the problem is visible on a page that isn't behind a form, just point browsershots or a similar service at it.

   • Walter van Holst (whvholst@eupolicy.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 08:34:34 JST Walter van Holst

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     • Sparr

     @sparr It was on a Ubuntu desktop, I don't think Safari or Edge are options there.

   • Sparr (sparr@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Jan-2023 08:34:35 JST Sparr

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     @whvholst How many other browsers (or, more specifically, rendering and/or javascript engines) did you try on? Two data points doesn't give much indication of their standards support.