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> With the Chrome "backup plan" literally everyone will have to modify their code to make it work I don't understand. If you need to detect a >99 version, then
by coldpie 5y ago
> With the Chrome "backup plan" literally everyone will have to modify their code to make it work
I don't understand. If you need to detect a >99 version, then yes, you'll need to update your code, but you'll need to do that anyway, to add your >99 logic in the first place. If you don't need to detect that, then no changes are needed, and as a bonus no poorly-coded sites will break.
- dtech 5y agoThe point is not necessarily that this hack is too much, but it's yet another hack on a system that is already so full of hacks that parsing it is incredibly complicated and error-prone, requiring more hacks in the future. It's a self-reinforcing loop. Do we ever say enough is enough?
- coldpie 5y agoIt seems people are working on this, yes. See other comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30350659 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30350659 Breaking existing websites is not an acceptable solution.
- Beltalowda 5y agoMy assumption is that everyone who does this will want to detect version >99 sooner or later.