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- adjective computing Having lesser capabilities or a lower
version number.
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Examples
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Can downlevel access (via phones, sidekicks, etc.) be provided for those who don't have computers?
Putting Citizens First: Transforming Online Govt White Paper Sifry, Micah L. 2008
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Supposedly, you can build for downlevel systems, but I haven't figured out how to make that work for packages built outside the control of Package Builder.
May 1st, 2005 2005
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They ship with Windows so anything they add would be around for all of Windows too, in no worse of a way that the Windows "only latest version" provides, and probably better since they can go downlevel.
Site Home Michael S. Kaplan 2011
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Even with the browercaps you have provided, Safari still renders the downlevel menufor me. dirkguard
ASP.NET Forums 2010
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That's two major release levels behind the latest version, which is Firefox 3.6, and more than half a dozen point releases downlevel from the current, and somewhat conservatively backlevel, Firefox 3.5.
The Inquirer 2010
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ASP. NET 1.1 treated FireFox as a downlevel browser and did not emit all the required
ASP.NET Forums 2010
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So the default in Visual Studio is to use TLS, and not the downlevel SSLv3, but the question may come up, what do we do if we are stuck using a device that requires SSLv3?
Site Home 2010
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Safari and IE5. 0 are considered downlevel browsers by ASP. NET.
ASP.NET Forums 2010
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Net ServicePointManager to negotiate downlevel SSLv3 instead of TLS.
Site Home 2010
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How about if an application is running on a downlevel OS.
Resources | ZDNet 2010
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