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forward compatibility

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forward compatibility [¦fȯr·wərd kəm‚pad·ə′bil·əd·ē]
(computer science)
upward compatibility
(jargon)forward compatibility - The ability to accept input from later versions of itself.

Forward compatibility is harder to achieve than backward compatibility, since, in the backward case, the input format is know whereas a forward compatible system needs to cope gracefully with unknown future features. An example of future compatibility is the stipulation that a web browser should ignore HTML tags it does not recognise.

See also extensible.


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