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		pcwalton on Sept 5, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Email security on Democratic campaigns is as bad a... Google UA sniffed on Gmail to exclude Firefox (and every browser that wasn't specifically Chrome). And there shouldn't be a "migration period" that holds the entire feature hostage until browsers implement Chrome-specific stuff.

kiallmacinnes on Sept 5, 2018 [–]

My memory was that Firefox had implemented a newer draft (or final version?) of the spec. Sniffing the UA to avoid providing broken stuff to people isn't exactly evil.

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