5 ms·

This is pretty crappy. What is the rendering difference of 5 to 8? How many versions am I as a web developer going to have to support. short dev cycles and fast

This is pretty crappy. What is the rendering difference of 5 to 8? How many versions am I as a web developer going to have to support. short dev cycles and fast releases like this are stupid.

AndrewDucker 15y ago
FF is now autoupdating, so once 5 was out 4 stopped being supported, and this will now continue. So you only have to support the latest version.
- CrazedGeek 15y ago
  And 3.6, at least for a little while.
arkitaip 15y ago
Mozilla has moved away from the typical versioning system to one where major x.0 releases are shipped much more frequently per their rapid release development cycle [1] [2]. So even if there are no "major" changes you will see a new x.0 release. This shouldn't cause developers any major problems. Well, unless, for example, someone is using shoddy user agent detection scripts, the consequences which Opera experienced when it released version 10; turns out some scripts aren't designed to handle two-digit version numbers [3] ಠ_ಠ [1] http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/04/13/new-channels-for-firefox-rapid-releases/ http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/04/13/new-channels-for-fir... [2] http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/06/21/mozilla-delivers-new-version-of-firefox-first-web-browser-to-support-do-not-track-on-multiple-platforms/ http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/06/21/mozilla-delivers-new... [3] http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-ua-string-changes/ http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-ua-string-changes/
capnrefsmmat 15y ago
Mozilla keeps documentation of what web developers should be aware of for each major release: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_6_for_developers https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_6_for_developers https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_7_for_developers https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_7_for_developers

5 ms·

This is pretty crappy. What is the rendering difference of 5 to 8? How many versions am I as a web developer going to have to support. short dev cycles and fast

by snow_mac 15y ago

This is pretty crappy. What is the rendering difference of 5 to 8? How many versions am I as a web developer going to have to support. short dev cycles and fast releases like this are stupid.

AndrewDucker 15y ago
FF is now autoupdating, so once 5 was out 4 stopped being supported, and this will now continue. So you only have to support the latest version.
- CrazedGeek 15y ago
  And 3.6, at least for a little while.
arkitaip 15y ago
Mozilla has moved away from the typical versioning system to one where major x.0 releases are shipped much more frequently per their rapid release development cycle [1] [2]. So even if there are no "major" changes you will see a new x.0 release. This shouldn't cause developers any major problems. Well, unless, for example, someone is using shoddy user agent detection scripts, the consequences which Opera experienced when it released version 10; turns out some scripts aren't designed to handle two-digit version numbers [3] ಠ_ಠ [1] http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/04/13/new-channels-for-firefox-rapid-releases/ http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/04/13/new-channels-for-fir... [2] http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/06/21/mozilla-delivers-new-version-of-firefox-first-web-browser-to-support-do-not-track-on-multiple-platforms/ http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2011/06/21/mozilla-delivers-new... [3] http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-ua-string-changes/ http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-ua-string-changes/
capnrefsmmat 15y ago
Mozilla keeps documentation of what web developers should be aware of for each major release: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_6_for_developers https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_6_for_developers https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_7_for_developers https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_7_for_developers