+1 There's a reason that web browser APIs have so much cruft (user-agent string, yuck), and there's a reason for ECMAScript 5's "use strict" instead of "use legacy". Old code should work without changing it. Otherwise a lot of things break which take a lot of time to fix, and even worse, devs can forget about some project (I know I have), and it breaks without warning. On Jul 19, 2012 1:40 PM, "Lester Caine" <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> Daniel Macedo wrote: > >> What I was stating is that: IF you want to keep the old way of doing >> things around instead of removing them, it should be "change >> settings/tag/whatever so it work as the old way" and not "change it so >> it works the new way", that was my only point. >> > > Obviously you don't support a lot of active websites? > One little change in PHP5.3.10 or so wiped out a whole block of mine, and > the fix involved a re-writing all the <?= code across many pages. Simply > because the ISP would not switch back on short tag. > I WILL have all these sites moved to machines I can control all the > configurations of but it all takes time. We simply do not have the time to > rewrite everything every time someone decides they don't like 'the old > way', but we need the security fixes since every exploit is better > advertised than the new features !!! > > I repeat what I have said many times ... we need a 'long time stable' API > that just gets security updates so that long time stable sites can be just > left to work ... If you want to rewrite the manual, then start on a new > fork of PHP please. > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - > http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=**contact<http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact> > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - > http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.**uk<http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk> > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
