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Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 19 Mar 2000 14:10:31 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Todd Lehman wrote:
> > > Is Netscape still fixing bugs that appeared in NN3.x, or more
> > > appropriately, I guess, in NN2.x?
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> > If there are any left, I'd hope so!
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> And I would hope NOT. NS has better things to do with their time than
> fix 3 year old software. Standard policy in software is to drop support
> for stuff more than 18 months old. And that's a GOOD think IMHO.
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> By your own admission (the stats you posted), hardly anyone is using it.
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> Note that I can talk out of both sides of my mouth on this, I do feel
> that HTML writers should be backward compatible... but not expect bugs
> in older software to be fixed, and after a certain point, cut their
> losses.
LOL! Unless you can go back in time, it's literally impossible to fix bugs
in older browsers! Once you fix the bug, you've created a new version, and
the old version continues to exist.
I think we interpreted Mike's question differently. I answered it literally.
I hope Netscape is still fixing bugs that appeared in NN 3.x & 2.x.
But not on source code branches -- not backlevel releases. Even if Netscape
fixes a bug which appeared in 2.x and is now fixed for 5.x, I hope they only
apply the fix to 5.x and not waste any time fixing it and retesting on a 2.x
version branch.
The reason the question can be interpreted both ways is because some companies
(MS in particular) have a long history of leaving old bugs in place (not fixing
them in new releases) for reasons of backward compatibility. W.r.t. MS,
I think this was true more in the old DOS days before the MSDN cashcow.
--Todd
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| (...) fixing (...) Backward compat is a sometimes difficult issue to deal with. Case in point, because of the many differences in the rendering capabilities between Nav and IE, many site authors have to write small workarounds to get even polarity (...) (25 years ago, 20-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) And I would hope NOT. NS has better things to do with their time than fix 3 year old software. Standard policy in software is to drop support for stuff more than 18 months old. And that's a GOOD think IMHO. By your own admission (the stats (...) (25 years ago, 19-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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