GTK 4.0 [LWN.net]

GTK 4.0

Posted Dec 21, 2020 1:07 UTC (Mon) by MrWim (subscriber, #47432)
In reply to: GTK 4.0 by scientes
Parent article: GTK 4.0

I guess the point is that browsers support websites that are 30 years old. It means you can create something once and expect it to continue working long into the future.

That's not to say that there haven't been changes, but backwards compatibility means you only need to make modifications to take advantage of these new capabilities, rather than changes just to keep providing the same experience.

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GTK 4.0

Posted Dec 21, 2020 7:16 UTC (Mon) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998) [Link] (1 responses)

Browsers may support websites that are 30 years old, but not web programs that are 30 years old. ActiveX, Flash, Java applets, and Silverlight are all pretty much dead, and with them pretty much every "program" that was created for the web prior to around HTML5. I don't know how long this current wave of backward compatibility will last, but I don't think anyone should be touting 30 years of compatibility in the context of non-trivial web applications.

GTK 4.0

Posted Jan 2, 2021 15:55 UTC (Sat) by ryzokuken (guest, #115983) [Link]

None of the technologies that you mention are a part of the web platform, but are add-ons that are supported on specific web browsers in addition to the web features. The actual web platform is, and will always be, perfectly backwards compatible.