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[agermain]

Google Reader is the latest in a line of websites whose redesigns repulse me to the point of never using them again. I really hate that "progressive design" seems to be synonymous with "we'll support your browsers -- if it's not too much effort." Heck I still make an effort to code for IE6, and I feel bad for not catering to Netscape 4

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[theantitexan]

I don't like most of the various new looks Google's tools (Gmail, Google Docs, etc) have. It...doesn't feel like an improvement, and like it's the same set of features but just uglier?

EDIT: I wasn't aware of the problems with the back-end, but that's more annoying, too. It's not very good-looking and it causes trouble for some browsers? Egh.

THE SINGULARITY DRAWS NEAR

[unclejam]

But then how could we have the experience of rebooting to install updates :(

[agermain]

I personally feel IE7 is a good line to stop at. There are folks on base unable and unwilling to upgrade past that, and now that Google has asserted market dominance and has their own solution, they're suddenly okay with eschewing any semblance of support for the older IE crowd.

Google's doing some great stuff, and you need to make choices in order to progress. But if I can look over and point at Microsoft as a company that handles something better, that ought to be a wake-up call. (Hotmail's progressive degradation is much more compatible/less condescending with older browsers)

[unclejam]

I agree with cyanne that you have to draw a practical limit somewhere. However it is unfortunate that Google appears to be putting out crap. I haven't looked at Google Reader: maybe it looks better on mobile apps or something?

As for FB reposts, I know you can kind of do it the other way; my uncle does so.