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Works Best in "__________"

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More than a decade ago, the available web browsers---Internet Explorer, Netscape and Opera---differed widely in capability. Cutting-edge pages that worked in one browser either didn't work at all in the others, or ceased to be cutting-edge. In those days, it was both common and appropriate to include a browser recommendation. "Best viewed in Internet Explorer" or "Best viewed in Netscape" flourished. Today, however, the various browsers have standardized to a great degree. There is no longer a huge difference between the functionality offered by Firefox, Internet Explorer<fn>, Opera, Chrome or Safari.<fn> The article <a href="http://kottke.org/11/03/play-katamari-damacy-on-any-web-site" source="" author="Jason Kottke">Play Katamari Damacy on any web site</a><fn> includes the following text in its short article, <bq>Works best in <b>Firefox and Chrome.</b></bq> The demonstration works just fine in <b>Opera</b> and passably in <b>Safari</b>. There is no longer any reason to include the "Works best in..." badge unless experimentation has shown that the page really <i>does</i> work better in one browser than another. It's 2011, stop knee-jerk including the "Works best in..." badge---the world has moved on. <hr> <ft>IE9 is, on the whole, a much more standards-compliant browser than its predecessors and supports most, if not all, of the cutting-edge technologies required by the coolest tech demos.</ft> <ft>My apologies to any browser vendor who feels offended by being left off of this list.</ft> <ft>The game indicated can also be played from <a href="javascript:var%20i,s,ss=['http://kathack.com/js/kh.js','http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js'];for(i=0;i!=ss.length;i++){s=document.createElement('script');s.src=ss[i];document.body.appendChild(s);}void(0);" source="" author="">this page</a>.</ft>