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		The_Colonel on Jan 1, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: DaedalOS – Desktop environment in the browser It's the web browsers which need to keep perfect backwards compatibility with essentially all existing web standards.

rchaud on Jan 3, 2024 [–]

Like what? Sites don't ask me to allow ActiveX or check if I have Flash installed, and CSS support across browsers is not uniform even now. JQuery did more to ensure JS compatibility across browsers than the vendors themselves.

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