🤣 I haven’t seen a “version 0” broken browser sniffing in a while! I can’t believe it’s 2019 and people are still doing user-agent string browser-detection instead of feature detection (or, you know, no detection at all…) 😡

blackboard (edutech) I expect nothing more 😂 but always worthy of a screenshot

@smokey having said that I totally agree with you that it’s a joke of a scenerio. Just shockingly bad design and poor engineering.

Could it actually be worse than Moodle? (My wife’s university uses Blackboard, and she seems to swear at it more than I do Moodle, to be fair.)

@adders well... they all have their flaws and they all have their uses...I have numerous talks / docs about why I think they are all fatally flawed but put as short as possible, they all mainly work as a digital loft, you sure can store stuff there but review and retreval by yourself is painful and by another well that’s really super painful, but the stuff is there and we sure did provide it... if your access is on the list of accepted loft users mind... 👍

However this again reminds me of why I need to pull together a better one pager of my research and project

@adders in terms of ranking of worst.. I always say...

Canvas 🥉Moodle 🥈 Blackboard 🥇

Not a gold medal to be proud of 😬

Ah, Blackboard. That totally explains it. Full-stop, no further explanation needed.

@smokey ✌️

@adders See also this series of posts from @blair and @dancohen.

My only experience was with early-Blackboard (my alma mater’s new/first CIO came from the school that had just invented Blackboard and saddled us with it, though thankfully almost no-one used it) and it was a barely-functional disaster.

It seems like all of these “enterprise” offerings targeted at captive audiences where the software has only to check the boxes required by IT (with complete disregard to the needs of the actual [end-]users) always ends up being poorly implemented. No one wants to use that crap, so no one wants to write (or test!) that crap, so the vendors can’t get the best talent?

Versus things that are written for, and have to compete on, the open web, which seem to have a much higher quality and are much less likely to do totally stupid (and especially already-outdated-in-the-1990s) web “design” practices….

@adders @smokey in case you want more words... on the flaws here is section of text I finished at the start of the year

manifold.soton.ac.uk/read/unti...

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That’s Firefox for iOS in the screenshot, right?

@smokey yes

Thanks. I haven’t done a browser-sniffing post in a long time (I once did them a couple of times a year), and this one is too good not to (re)blog 😂

@smokey feel free all my blog CC licenced 👍

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Glad you didn’t put the system I work on there. 😉