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<blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 8750538" data-attributes="member: 42856">To expand on the word processor analogy, an old version was only doing plain text. A new version is backward compatible, but offer the possibility to bold and underline document on top of that. It would be backward compatible (it can read the plain text version created by the old version) but the reverse isn't true (the old word processor would choke on the new bold and underlined text. THey would be backward compatible... despite a text made with the new word processor would be much better with it's bold and underlined titles than the old one. Plain text being nerfed by nice text doesn't make it &quot;not backward compatible&quot;.While I guess we can agree to disagree, the wording of compatibiliy they use is visibly creating different expectation that they should clarify if they don't want to disappoint (though my guess is that they will disappoint for anything short of saying it's a different ruleset altogether).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jfdlsjfd, post: 8750538, member: 42856"] To expand on the word processor analogy, an old version was only doing plain text. A new version is backward compatible, but offer the possibility to bold and underline document on top of that. It would be backward compatible (it can read the plain text version created by the old version) but the reverse isn't true (the old word processor would choke on the new bold and underlined text. THey would be backward compatible... despite a text made with the new word processor would be much better with it's bold and underlined titles than the old one. Plain text being nerfed by nice text doesn't make it "not backward compatible". While I guess we can agree to disagree, the wording of compatibiliy they use is visibly creating different expectation that they should clarify if they don't want to disappoint (though my guess is that they will disappoint for anything short of saying it's a different ruleset altogether). [/QUOTE]

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