• (nodebb)

    Well, it could actually be done after version 100...

  • Brian Boorman (unregistered)

    Does Firefox still exist?

  • Michael R (unregistered)

    I present you Windows 9. Not. For allegedly the same reasons.

  • (nodebb)

    What's unclear is whether it's a fix for goofiness in Firefox 1.X, 10-19, or 100-139...

  • dusoft (unregistered) in reply to Steve_The_Cynic

    jQuery, so probably 1x versions

  • Patrick (unregistered)

    Somewhat apocryphal, but this is supposedly why there wasn't a version 9 of Windows - old code was assuming versions starting with"Windows 9" are 95 or 98.

  • (nodebb)

    Since the current version of FF is 139, that condition has been true for a while, and will continue to succeed for several years (new major releases come out about every month).

  • (nodebb)

    Don't think it a problem. Just looked up the property in the jQuery documentation and it says it was removed in jQuery 1.9. The current version is 3.something.

  • aFoxFixer (unregistered) in reply to Patrick

    I'm leaning strongly towards that being apocryphal. They could just make the internal version string literally anything else, Windows Nine, Windows IX, or even something quick and dirty Windows _9. The fact that it wouldn't parse as a number didn't prevent them from releasing XP or Vista, so that's non-argument. I find it hard to believe they'd change the product's whole branding over something so easily workarounadble.

  • Cathy (unregistered) in reply to Michael R

    I came here to mention this. It's not officially confirmed to be true, but enough seemingly knowledgeable people have reported it that I'd guess that it is. Which is funny and sad in equal measure.

  • Duke of New York (unregistered)

    It didn't stop XP or Vista because those create distinct cases, not ambiguous ones.

    More importantly it was the Ballmer era when magically-thinking brand execs ran the company. Apple numbers its OS 10 and people like it, therefore...

  • Die Kuhe (kein roboter) (unregistered) in reply to Brian Boorman

    Yes. Surprised?

  • Die Kuhe (kein roboter) (unregistered) in reply to aFoxFixer

    The version number is not the same as the "advertised" name of Windows. Just to make the things clearer, Microsoft called "Seven" the version 6.1, "8" the version 6.2, and so on... Or maybe in the US the dot between digits means "sum"?

  • (nodebb) in reply to Patrick

    No, that one was to provide an adequate creepage distance between the sucking chest wound that was 8 and whatever followed it.

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