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>1. Your “could” is nonsense.

quote: Do you know what the most popular Vietnamese sites are? I don't either. Do that for >200 languages.

was the example given, it's true I do not know what the most popular Vietnamese sites are, and the person who posted that and pretty much anyone on this site does not know what the most popular Vietnamese sites are or the same thing for 200 plus languages, but there are a few companies out there for which finding that out is pretty much child's play. One of those companies makes the Chrome browser.

Also testing against the entire web, obviously asking people to report problems is not really testing against the entire web, it is testing against a subset of the web. This should not really need to be pointed out to the H part of HN, but here I am. A similar thing would be if you had a big index of the web and you tested against that.

>2. Better not to get salty about some downvotes

your and my definitions about saltiness seem to vary a great deal.

on edit: Noting really that the thing to determine is how many sites actually use the UA styles for H1 instead of overriding, which would also be child's play for Google, and determining the most popular sites or pages that do so. I believe that the sites that do so are few and far between and not exceptionally popular, as well as probably very simply styled, if this belief is true it would also be relatively simple for someone to figure out what side effects were likely - if they had the data and processing power to do so. But Mozilla does not, therefore they must ask people to tell them if they have problems.




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