Stack Overflow
Stack Overflow

Questions tagged [backwards-compatibility]

Backward compatibility refers to a software or hardware system that can successfully use interfaces and data from earlier versions of the system.

1060 questions
0
votes
1 answer

Redis object serialization backwards compatibility

We serialized the following java entity and stored into Redis: public class Foo { public String bar; } then our application v2 modified the class Foo as: public class Foo { public String bar; public Integer eggs; public Datetime…
xoyoja
  • 436
  • 1
  • 5
  • 18
0
votes
1 answer

Will api.facebook.com end point be going away when 2.0 facebook api rolls out

Ok so, Some confusion here, and perhaps I am just stupid.. perhaps somebody who works for Facebook even can answer I don't know... It says FQL is going away when they phase version 1.0 out, ok fine and well. Does that include only the…
Lance Bryant
  • 158
  • 12
0
votes
1 answer

Negative Margins and Floats in IE9

I'm trying to accomplish a 3 column fluid layout with an additional span at the bottom that covers the last 2 columns. In addition, I need to use source ordering so that the middle column is actually the first column in the markup. I have an example…
jhummel
  • 1,724
  • 14
  • 20
0
votes
0 answers

App Crashing on certain iOS versions

I've released an app for iPhone. My deployment target is 7.0, base SDk latest. and it work fine on the latest version iphones, but some people are saying it doesnt work on their phone, when I asked what version they are running, they say below 7.1…
lbpman1
  • 151
  • 1
  • 1
  • 8
0
votes
1 answer

app crashes on android 4.3

I got an issue with an android app I'm trying to develop. When I test it in an emulator with android 4.4.2 (the target sdk version), everything works fine. But when I run the same code in an emulator with the same settings but android 4.3 instead,…
user1834095
  • 5,332
  • 2
  • 20
  • 38
0
votes
2 answers

EJB 2.1 and EJB 3.1 components in the same application

So we are migrating a project written in EJB 2.1 to EJB 3.1 in parts. To start with, we have picked up 1 ejb and incorporating 3.1 changes in it, without touching other exisitng 2.1 beans. Apart from other EJB 3.1 changes, we also changed the…
user3782437
  • 11
  • 1
  • 3
0
votes
0 answers

MongoDB document alias strategy

Let's say we already have two documents : { "_id": { "$oid": "537e1562bb20c702d8e66c7b" }, "name": "Bob", "color": "Red" } { "_id": { "$oid": "537dc2cbbb20c71aa6610145" }, "name": "Bob", "color": "Red" } So Bob has a duplicate but we…
Diolor
  • 13,181
  • 30
  • 111
  • 179
0
votes
1 answer

How to develop an application which will be compatible for iPhone and iPod Touch 2.0 and above

I have a requirement of developing an application which will be compatible for iPhone and iPod Touch 2.0 and above. So I have number of questions. 1) Do I need to take care of all the deprecated methods and how? 2) I think there is no support for…
Roger_iPhone
  • 737
  • 1
  • 9
  • 20
0
votes
2 answers

Porting MATLAB 7 files back to 6.1

I have a MATLAB assignment due in an hour, and I wrote it all in MATLAB 7. One of my friends who took the assignment said that it is not working on MATLAB 6.1 as functions like dirac are not defined. I only just found out that the MATLAB version…
Nikwin
  • 6,576
  • 4
  • 35
  • 43
0
votes
1 answer

Visual Studio 2008 Reporting Services backward compability issue

I know there is an Issue using SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services and Visual Studio 2005, but does this error still exsist with Visual Studio 2008 and 2010? If so, is there any work-aground to get this working?
Filip Ekberg
  • 36,033
  • 20
  • 126
  • 183
0
votes
0 answers

Why do I get a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError on launch in Android 4.1 but not 4.4?

My main activity launches just fine in 4.4, but not when using 4.1. Then I get: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.name.thing.other.MyActivity$1 ... and the rest of the stack trace. Manifest: http://pastebin.com/KSNzgEZy
Zatricion
  • 142
  • 1
  • 2
  • 8
0
votes
0 answers

What are jQuery's Backwards Compatibility Guarantees

Does jQuery make any version-to-version compatibility guarantees? For example following semantic versioning or do you just have to read the release notes every time? Note: I have seen other questions that ask how good compatibility has actually…
Kevin Cox
  • 3,080
  • 1
  • 32
  • 32
0
votes
1 answer

What is the Best Tool to Automate HTML5 Backwards Compatibility Testing in Various Browsers

I'm using Modernizr to make my HTML5 site backwards compatible. It's great, but is there a tool to run automated, headless tests which will parse my HTML for HTML5 features, then test each my code and its features in numerous browsers, and generate…
Shawesome
  • 55
  • 11
0
votes
1 answer

Android setting listener that does not exist on lower api

I have read stuff about how to wrap things to be backward compatible but I can't get my arms around this one I would like to do TextToSpeech textToSpeech = ... ... if(Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 15){ textToSpeech.setOnUtteranceProgressListener(new…
Thomas
  • 8,306
  • 8
  • 53
  • 92
0
votes
2 answers

Can I switch to Rails 4 and Ruby 2 from Rails 3.1 & Ruby 1.9.3 in middle of a project without trouble?

I am going through Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl. Situation: I am creating a microblogging website (a minimalist twitter clone) using Rails 3.1.3 and Ruby 1.9.3. I have created the sign-up, sign in, and sign out functionality so far,…
SajidBarcha
  • 25
  • 1
  • 5
1 2 3
…
70 71