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According to MDN, `@supports` is part of the CSS3 spec, defined in 2012. In 2016, it's time to start using it. Web development in a nutshell.
by sapeien 10y ago
According to MDN, `@supports` is part of the CSS3 spec, defined in 2012. In 2016, it's time to start using it. Web development in a nutshell.
- lucideer 10y agoIPv6 spec was 1996. Four years is not really a very long time in the greater scheme of things, the pace of modern web development just makes for an impatient populous with short attention spans.
- cyphar 10y agoI don't think that you can compare a backwards-incompatible change in a low layer of the stack that runs the internet with a feature of CSS parsers that was standardised 4 years ago. Some things are expected to take more time than others.
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- dom0 10y agoIf v6 were widely deployed in the early 2000s, then the Windows botnet phase would have been so much worse, many other issues aside.
- z3t4 10y agoThere are browsers out there, that has not been updated in several years, like my Nokia N9 (Microsft bought the company and killed it)
- SquareWheel 10y agoTraditionally perhaps, but as we've moved into the age of evergreen browsers things have picked up substantially. It's now feasible to start using new APIs weeks after they roll out, sometimes with a polyfill to fall back to.