Re: cvs: php4 / php.ini-recommended
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:42:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: cvs: php4 / php.ini-recommended | ||
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> There is little point in maintaining backwards compatibility
> if it can be established that there is no need for it
> anymore.
My worry is that this change appears to have absolutely no positive
aspects and only negative potential. We know browsers exist that cannot
handle 4-digit years. Early WebTV boxes don't, early Netscape don't. We
do not know of any browsers that cannot handle 2-digit years. Hence I
fail to see the upside with this change.
Your reasoning is that somebody will at some point write a browser that
can't handle 2-digit years and thus we should risk breaking existing apps
for a small percentage of users. I think we should worry about this when
such a browser actually surfaces.
-Rasmus