Fast base64 encoding and decoding

Re:Fast base64 encoding and decoding by _wmd on Wednesday January 17, 2018 @07:16PM (#16173411)

I'm not sure why you believe that is a counterexample - it is anything but. That interpreter can still run code written against the original DOM APIs in the original syntax, as defined 22 years ago - around time the <noscript> tag appeared in HTML!

Of course if mom and pop were using UUCP and an ADM-3A to fetch their mail, they couldn't view the images -- but all the infrastructure that allowed them to read mail at all could be repurposed without change, possibly including their modem (thanks, RS-232, introduced 1960), if they bought a 80386 desktop with a VGA card

These are all interoperability success stories! Meanwhile, I need 19 different IM apps on my phone to talk to 19 different people. That's what happens when you ignore interoperability

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Re:Fast base64 encoding and decoding by mschuster91 on Thursday January 18, 2018 @04:59AM (#16175932)

> Meanwhile, I need 19 different IM apps on my phone to talk to 19 different people. That's what happens when you ignore interoperability

IO was not ignored, it was willfully cast aside. That's the world of walled gardens we live in today... federation makes it possible for users to switch outside your walled garden.

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