[TYPO3-dev] Bug on/off switch in typo3, defaults to bug on

[Markus Bertheau]

Well that's interesting. What's exactly the typo3 backwards
compatability contract? Is it "with the same code, behave _exactly_
and 100% like older versions did"? If that's so, don't you think that
such a contract is reason for a lot of old and useless code rotting in
typo3? Wouldn't a contract like this for this particular issue make
more sense? "Display a page browser. Behaves reasonable. What exactly
we call reasonable might change over time. But it will always be a
page browser that allows you to browse between the pages. Old options
on new code will not break it but will  maybe don't behave the same
way as in older versions."

Markus

2006/4/24, Peter Niederlag <niederlag at ikd01.de>:
> Hi,
>
> Markus Bertheau schrieb:
> > Do you want to say that there was a time without pagefloat, and that
> > in this time, the page browser exposed the same useless behaviour I
> > described in my first mail, only there was no way to change it?
>
> exactly.
>
> Often things like this are left as is for "backwards compatibility" and
> some option is added to make it behave like it should have done in the
> first place. ;)
>
> Greets,
> Peter
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