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I miss people caring about compatibility with older browsers. People even used to care about people who disabled JavaScript. Nowadays people seem to not gaf about older browsers. They somehow want everyone to be on the bleeding edge. What happened?


> They somehow want everyone to be on the bleeding edge. What happened?

It is one order of magnitude easier to ship a software to the last version of the major browsers than supporting all older versions of them including IE with disabled javascript.


Without a doubt it’s easier. But don’t we have more tools than before? Don’t companies & organizations have more employees/developers than before? Why are we getting less with more? I feel like there were higher standards in the jquery era.




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