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by Gare 1497 days ago
What? Web APIs are one of the most stable APIs in existence. "Don't break the web" is taken very seriously.
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damon_c 1497 days ago
The context for this belief has only existed for about 10 years now.
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plorkyeran 1497 days ago
The 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.
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8ytecoder 1497 days ago
More like half of that. I did web development in 2012. We couldn't have done it without jQuery.
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