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The problem is backwards compatibility. If you deprecate something, huge swaths of the web are just gone. And we can't just use an older browser version for th
by dmitriid 5y ago
The problem is backwards compatibility. If you deprecate something, huge swaths of the web are just gone.
And we can't just use an older browser version for the older web. It means you have to maintain two browsers now. At the very least you'll need to patch security vulnerabilities and you have to make sure they work on new OS versions.
It's a conundrum, and I don't have an idea how to solve it :)
- accountaway025 5y agoIt seems to me that, over the last 5 years, a giant round of deprecation took place, and caused swaths of (older) clients to be gone from the Web: more and more servers have stopped supporting older secure transports (SSL 3.0, TLS 1.0). Because of that my original Samsung Galaxy S and iPad Mini have very little use these days, beside acting as alarm clocks. As is the case in politics, the security trump card will win over most arguments and all-too-subtle counterpoints in the "web space", too.