Re: the changeover to mysqli [message #182937 is a reply to message #182935] |
Wed, 25 September 2013 21:58 |
Christoph Michael Bec
Messages: 207 Registered: June 2013
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Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <1cun3xxz7nbpj(dot)zop5ye5ou0f7$(dot)dlg(at)40tude(dot)net>,
> richard <noreply(at)example(dot)com> wrote:
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>> Let's face it, html has deprecated a ton of things which are still in
>> use.
>> Why? because a hoard of people refuse to upgrade their systems.
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> You mean, update their web pages. Fat chance of that happening. And
> because browsers still support almost everything that was ever
> introduced, bar a couple of minor things, I see no reason, by and large,
> to do so either. I just use the HTML5 doctype to ensure standards mode.
And that is exactly the reason, why those deprecated features won't be
removed--because it would break too many existing sites. If there were
less websites relying on obsolete features, the browser's could be
purged, which would be beneficial to ease further development.
The situation is similar with regard to the original MySQL extension.
Cf. <https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mysql_deprecation>.
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Christoph M. Becker
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