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>[...] were rediscovered by readers at software coding website Hacker News, kicking off a fiery yet inaccessible 160-comment thread about backwards compatibilit
by ancarda 13y ago
>[...] were rediscovered by readers at software coding website Hacker News, kicking off a fiery yet inaccessible 160-comment thread about backwards compatibility and PC system requirements.
Maybe I misread this but what was inaccessible about that thread?
- tedunangst 13y agoThe opening thread is debating whether open standards cause backwards compatibility or not, the difficulty one may have opening a wordperfect file, and the design aesthetics of using HMTL tables.
- smsm42 13y agoI read it as "I don't know what they are talking about and I'm going to make it their fault".