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The web is one of the great stories of backwards compatibility along with Microsoft's herculean efforts on DOS/Windows over the years.
by dasil003 10y ago
The web is one of the great stories of backwards compatibility along with Microsoft's herculean efforts on DOS/Windows over the years.
- jimmaswell 10y ago>The web is one of the great stories of backwards compatibility Are you serious? Flash is being dropped eventually, npapi plugins (especially wrt Java) are out, the blink tag is gone, Firefox extensions are being dropped for a worse system, breaking changes to JavaScript, the list goes on.
- brennen 10y agoOn the other hand, HTML I wrote by hand in some terrible Windows text editor in 1997 still renders fine. It's kind of a mixed bag.