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What? Web APIs are one of the most stable APIs in existence. "Don't break the web" is taken very seriously.
by Gare 4y ago
What? Web APIs are one of the most stable APIs in existence. "Don't break the web" is taken very seriously.
- damon_c 4y agoThe context for this belief has only existed for about 10 years now.
- 8ytecoder 4y agoMore like half of that. I did web development in 2012. We couldn't have done it without jQuery.
- plorkyeran 4y agoThe phrase "Don't break the web" is a bit newer, but it's basically the sentiment that lead to WHATWG forming 18 years ago, and one of the big defining goals of HTML5 was to set a foundation for expanding the web platform in a backwards-compatible way. HTML5 has been out for about as long as the invention of the web to HTML5.