Comments on: A Failure of Forward Compatibility http://qahatesyou.com/wordpress/2008/12/a-failure-of-forward-compatibility/ You suspected it. Now you know it. Tue, 15 May 2012 21:22:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: The Director http://qahatesyou.com/wordpress/2008/12/a-failure-of-forward-compatibility/comment-page-1/#comment-114 The Director Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:58:44 +0000 http://qahatesyou.com/wordpress/2008/12/18/a-failure-of-forward-compatibility/#comment-114 You mistake the impulses in me. I would probably not allow the Web at all in my perfect applications, using a risky, stateless, interface-is-open-to- interpretation-by-any-number-of- third-party-software. Client-server was risky enough. You mistake the impulses in me. I would probably not allow the Web at all in my perfect applications, using a risky, stateless, interface-is-open-to- interpretation-by-any-number-of- third-party-software.

Client-server was risky enough.

]]> By: blrincker http://qahatesyou.com/wordpress/2008/12/a-failure-of-forward-compatibility/comment-page-1/#comment-113 blrincker Fri, 19 Dec 2008 07:01:34 +0000 http://qahatesyou.com/wordpress/2008/12/18/a-failure-of-forward-compatibility/#comment-113 First of all, what exactly does "Ergo" mean? Secondly, I must have misunderstood the sarcasm, because the comment: "Were I able to get my way and actually quite arbitrary, I’d say make everything work on the most recent version of Firefox only." Just isn't something I'd expect to hear out of your keyboard. In fact, I'd expect you to prefer that sites work all the way back to IE 1.0 and Firefox 1.0. You do have those installed on a test machine somewhere, right? First of all, what exactly does “Ergo” mean?

Secondly, I must have misunderstood the sarcasm, because the comment:

“Were I able to get my way and actually quite arbitrary, I’d say make everything work on the most recent version of Firefox only.”

Just isn’t something I’d expect to hear out of your keyboard. In fact, I’d expect you to prefer that sites work all the way back to IE 1.0 and Firefox 1.0. You do have those installed on a test machine somewhere, right?

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