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> we also can't ever move forwards. There is a thing called Forward Compatibility. Not everything old has to die to move forward. On our OpenGL 4.x videocards
by katastic 9y ago
> we also can't ever move forwards.
There is a thing called Forward Compatibility. Not everything old has to die to move forward.
On our OpenGL 4.x videocards still run OpenGL 1.x. And no, fixed function pipeline of 1.x isn't anything like the modern shader pipeline. (Sidenote: many cards that were designed in the 3.x era and nVidia backported 4.x support into their older cards which is amazing to me.)
>Maybe it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to introduce an "archival" mode in a browser.
Internet Explorer already did that.
- untog 9y ago> Not everything old has to die to move forward. But we're talking about a very specific example, where the best option for the vast majority of users was to change default behaviour. There is no "passive event listener still implements active event listener API" equivalent here. You have to make a choice.