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Imagine if books became unreadable the day the author died. Some people care about books, even books written by people long dead. And some people care about th
by olavk 8y ago
Imagine if books became unreadable the day the author died.
Some people care about books, even books written by people long dead. And some people care about the content on some older websites, even if they are not using the newest flashy framework.
As developers, we hate the demands of legacy code and backward compatibility. We would like to scrap everything and rewrite in the cool new language and framework every few years. But a browser is not only a fun playground for developers. It is a tool for accessing information for people who couldn't care less about what an identifier is called in JavaScript. They just want it to work.
- nailer 8y agoImagine if people left books to rot in a garbage dump rather than taking care of them.
- olavk 8y agoThis is where the analogy to books breaks down. If you have a book you care about you can take care of it. If you care about some website where the owner is long dead, there is probably nothing you can do to maintain it, except keep using a backwards compatible browser.