Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox

Re:Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox by ethbr0 on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @01:46PM (#30350864)

True, but user-agent was 1996(?). By then, we weren't talking about limited mainframe storage devices.

It just baffles that someone can look at a monotonically increasing number, defined and incremented by a third party, and say "That will never be 3 digits."

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Re:Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox by Beltalowda on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @02:31PM (#30351455)

I'd wager it's mostly fixed string indexes, regular expressions ("\d{2}"), and things like that. Maybe also some people with a "varchar(2)" column in the database.

A lot of software is written by junior programmers, not infrequently in a hurry. It's an easy mistake to make and if you've been bitten by it once you'll remember it, but many people have never been bitten by it.

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Re:Version 100 in Chrome and Firefox by skykooler on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @03:50PM (#30352510)

Well, keep in mind that major version numbers used to change slowly. In the first ten years Firefox existed, it went from version 0.1 to version 5.0. At that pace, it would have taken two hundred years to hit a three-digit major version. In my opinion, browser vendors brought this upon themselves by changing what "major version" meant.

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