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by gurjeet·5mo ago·view on hn ↗

  > Browser Not Supported
  > 
  > PCB Tracer requires a browser that supports access to a local directory.
  > This is needed to save and load your PCB Tracer project files.
  > 
  > Please use Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge for the best experience.
On Firefox, after bypassing the ominous warnings, when I tried to create a new project and choose a directory to save the project files, I get

  > Directory picker is not supported in this browser. Please use a modern browser like Chrome or Edge.
While I appreciate the early warning, so that the user doesn't spend too much effort only to later realize that they can't save their files to disk, I don't appreciate the implicit labeling of Firefox as not being a "modern" browser.

If you're developing a web app with APIs only available in certain browsers, just say/admit so.

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This document gives an overview of the many features of PCB Tracer. It is much more than a drawing program and is very data-rich. The software creates, reads and writes a number of different files. These include netlists, schematics, pdf datasheets, project files, project history, BOM, and PCB photos. https://pcbtracer.com/PCB_Tracer.html
That's odd. File Sytem API seems mostly available in Firefox since 111.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...

Remember when some sites called IE a modern browser?