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Re:Virtual Apple II – Apple II and Apple IIgs games ready to... by amelius on Saturday February 11, 2017 @07:24AM (#13622307)
It shows the sad state of the web: anything you build will automatically be broken in a couple of years.
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Re:Virtual Apple II – Apple II and Apple IIgs games ready to... by st3fan on Saturday February 11, 2017 @07:55AM (#13622403)
I downvoted this because it is nonsense. And in this case it is broken because this site depends on a browser extension. A native browser extension.
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Re:Virtual Apple II – Apple II and Apple IIgs games ready to... by dasil003 on Saturday February 11, 2017 @12:29PM (#13623587)
The web is one of the great stories of backwards compatibility along with Microsoft's herculean efforts on DOS/Windows over the years.
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Re:Virtual Apple II – Apple II and Apple IIgs games ready to... by jimmaswell on Saturday February 11, 2017 @08:28PM (#13626034)
>The web is one of the great stories of backwards compatibility

Are you serious? Flash is being dropped eventually, npapi plugins (especially wrt Java) are out, the blink tag is gone, Firefox extensions are being dropped for a worse system, breaking changes to JavaScript, the list goes on.

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Re:Virtual Apple II – Apple II and Apple IIgs games ready to... by brennen on Sunday February 12, 2017 @12:57AM (#13627017)
On the other hand, HTML I wrote by hand in some terrible Windows text editor in 1997 still renders fine. It's kind of a mixed bag.
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