Comment by Avamander
8 days ago
Because not everything should be kept in browsers for all eternity? Thankfully it isn't like that and things do get removed.
8 days ago
Because not everything should be kept in browsers for all eternity? Thankfully it isn't like that and things do get removed.
They absolutely should and this should be considered when adding new features. That's called having a stable platform that others can build upon.
I think you don't know how much has already been removed and we're absolutely fine without those features.
Tell me. I cannot, off the top of my head, think of a single feature that shipped across all major browsers that has been removed.
(For example: <blink> was never in WebKit or IE; Web SQL was never in Firefox or IE.)
Well, OK, I’ll count SharedArrayBuffer, which shipped across the board for a couple of months before being disabled for security reasons, and took up to four years before being shipped again, in slightly restricted form.
I wouldn’t count applets or plugins like Flash, because they weren’t really part of the web platform, and they also still work in theory, it’s just that the plugins in question no longer exist.
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