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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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