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by tolmasky 1259 days ago
It's as if JavaScript had shipped a non-compatible update, browsers had on a magic day stopped supporting the old JavaScript, and all of a sudden her crossword website stopped working because that site's developer didn't update the JavaScript. This grandma sure complains a lot about broken websites for someone who supposedly doesn't know what JavaScript is. What an entitled grandma. Why doesn't she just build Linux from source and check out a previous release of the browser from git.
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Backward compatibility is not free, it would eventually become bloat that is too big to fix. MS Windows and Office for example, and Adobe Flash was killed for good. I’m sure you can find a lot of examples.
Welcome to the magic world of CSS.