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by tambourine_man 2077 days ago
Exactly, but we can check for feature support and adapt accordingly. We did it for the seen for years.
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What if you have no browser for the platform at all?

What should you do if you need your app to run on W2000 for example (IE 6.0 anyone?) ?

Sometimes people do need that: https://sciter.com/necromancing-sciter-on-windows-2000/

Right, but I'm getting the sense that people may have done it for years, but all that did was engender a desire to never have to worry about compatibility again
It really is the age old debate between static and dynamic libraries.