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Re:Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of... by supertrope on Monday December 26, 2022 @11:22AM (#34138981)
Website compatibility issues get blamed on the browser. GPU drivers include game specific workarounds.
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Re:Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of... by yunohn on Monday December 26, 2022 @11:26AM (#34139038)
GPUs and games have a vested commercial interest in ensuring they work.

On the other hand, both the website and browser are mostly provided for free. Paid websites often do put the extra effort in to make it work everywhere, eg IE/Safari compat.

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Re:Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of... by astrange on Monday December 26, 2022 @01:12PM (#34140165)
Someone’s paying for you to use the browser, even if it’s not you - it’s not like Mozilla is hoping everyone will stop using Firefox. So browsers do have compatibility checks for websites sometimes.
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Re:Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of... by Slaminerag on Monday December 26, 2022 @04:30PM (#34142099)
There are an awful lot of expensive apps with web front ends that only worked with IE6 for years.
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Re:Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of... by Kwpolska on Monday December 26, 2022 @11:45AM (#34139284)
Everything worked fine back on Windows 3.1. Then you upgraded to Windows 95 and now your favourite game crashes. Why would you not blame Microsoft for this?
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Re:Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of... by afterburner on Monday December 26, 2022 @01:30PM (#34140325)
You would. Not OP but I believe they're highlighting an analogous situation in our present time.
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Re:Windows 95 went the extra mile to ensure compatibility of... by pontilanda on Monday December 26, 2022 @10:22PM (#34144638)
Browsers and engines are also regularly patched to improve web compat. I remember V8 "recently" released an update to improve the performance of a very common module. The details escape me however.
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