Comment by londons_explore
Comment by londons_explore 12 hours ago
> never going to be updated, so now we're stuck with it.
Try going to any 1998 web page in a modern browser... It's generally so broken so as to be unusable.
As well as every page telling me to install flash, most links are dead, most scripts don't run properly (vbscript!?), tls versions now incompatible, etc.
We shouldn't put much effort into backwards compatibility if it doesn't work in practice. The best bet to open a 1998 web page is to install IE6 in a VM, and everything works wonderfully.
The vast majority of pages from 1998 work fine today. VBscript was always a tiny minority of scripting. And link rot is an undeniable problem but that’s not an issue with the page itself.