Version targeting
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In computing, version targeting is a technique that allows a group of (presumably knowledgeable) users utilise some advanced software features that were introduced in a particular software version while allowing users accustomed to the prior versions still utilise the same software as if the new features were never added to the software.
Version targeting has been used in Mozilla Firefox[1] when it introduced JavaScript 1.6[2] and JavaScript 1.7[3].
Version targeting was also a proposal by Microsoft for its Internet Explorer 8 product-in-development that was later cancelled.[4]