Cross-browser vs. multi-browser

Cross-browser vs. multi-browser with regard to scripts, which is the most common usage, the term cross-browser is often confused with multi-browser. Multi-browser scripts can only be expected to work in environments where they have been demonstrated to work (due to assumptions based on observing a subset of browsers). Most publicly available libraries and frameworks are multi-browser scripts and list the environments (typically popular browsers in use at the time and in their default configurations) where they can be expected to work. Multi-browser scripts virtually always approach obsolescence as new browsers are introduced, features are deprecated and removed, and the authors assumptions are invalidated; therefore, multi-browser scripts have always required periodic maintenance. As the number of browsers and configurations in use has grown, so has the frequency of such maintenance. Older (or otherwise lesser) browsers and browser versions are periodically dropped as supported environments, regardless of whether or not they are still in use and without concern for what the new scripts will do when exposed to these environments.
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