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by amelius 3418 days ago
It shows the sad state of the web: anything you build will automatically be broken in a couple of years.
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st3fan 3418 days ago
I downvoted this because it is nonsense. And in this case it is broken because this site depends on a browser extension. A native browser extension.
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dasil003 3418 days ago
The web is one of the great stories of backwards compatibility along with Microsoft's herculean efforts on DOS/Windows over the years.
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jimmaswell 3417 days ago
>The web is one of the great stories of backwards compatibility

Are you serious? Flash is being dropped eventually, npapi plugins (especially wrt Java) are out, the blink tag is gone, Firefox extensions are being dropped for a worse system, breaking changes to JavaScript, the list goes on.

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brennen 3417 days ago
On the other hand, HTML I wrote by hand in some terrible Windows text editor in 1997 still renders fine. It's kind of a mixed bag.
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