On 12/02/15 03:45, Marc Fawzi wrote: > this "backward compatibility" stuff is making me think that the web is > built upon the axiom that we will never start over and we must keep > piling up new features and principles on top of the old ones > > this has worked so far, miraculously and not without overhead, but I can > only assume that it's at the cost of growing complexity in the browser > codebase. I'm sure you have to manage a ton of code that has to do with > old features and old ideas... > > how long can this be sustained? forever? what is the point in time where > the business of retaining backward compatibility becomes a huge nightmare? > As a side-note, the original thread is a good illustration of what happens whenever browser vendors attempt to deprecate features that are clearly broken by design. Cheers, David -- David Rajchenbach-Teller, PhD Performance Team, Mozilla
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