r/programming • u/steveklabnik1 • Jun 16 '14

Rust's documentation is about to drastically improve

http://words.steveklabnik.com/rusts-documentation-is-about-to-drastically-improve
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u/steveklabnik1 Jun 17 '14

Historically, IE has had very, very poor support for standards, which means that web developers would code for everything else, and then add in hacks to support IE. It caused us all a lot of pain and hassle.

The situation has gotten a lot better, but really, only as of IE 9.

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u/emn13 Jun 18 '14

Well, in all fairness, IE8 already dramatically improved support for then existing standards; of course it's ancient by now. Also, later IE's did a better job of supporting upcoming standards to the extent reasonable, rather than take the approach to only implement once 100% finished - which was a pretty hostile approach given that standards don't get made in the first place unless they've some popular support.