An example of forward compatibility is with a word processor.

The F-mount has a significant degree of both backward and forward compatibility.

Although forward compatibility and extensibility are similar, they are not the same.

This is usually done for forward compatibility, so a reserved word may become a keyword in a future version without breaking existing programs.

That is the main reason for the drop in figures, more so than backwards or forwards compatibility of the different Windows versions.

A standard supports forward compatibility if older product versions can receive, read, view, or play the new standard.

Weak backward and forward compatibility requires a wrapper script.

Version targeting has been criticised for not giving incentives to developers to plan ahead for forward compatibility.

Although the above file design allows forward compatibility, there are additional features that can be added to be more useful to the user.

In software engineering, extensibility (not to be confused with forward compatibility) is a system design principle where the implementation takes into consideration future growth.

Forward compatibility aims at the ability of a design to gracefully accept input intended for later versions of itself.

Additionally the compatibility features introduced in this version ensure forward compatibility with newer versions.

AIT backup tapes have backward and forward compatibility.

It also allowed forward compatibility, since old monaural FM radio receivers could still receive a signal from a new transmitter.

However, the designers mainly focused on the future, or forward compatibility, which gave the M68K computing platform a head start against later 32-bit instruction set architectures.

Compatibility flagging for backwards and forwards compatibility with other SQL standards.

Non-keywords may also be reserved words (forbidden as identifiers), particularly for forward compatibility, in case a word may become a keyword in future.

The concept of the WordPerfect document format allows continuous extending of functionality without jeopardizing backward and forward compatibility.

As future designers might continue or build on top of existing work, a UI specification should consider forward compatibility constraints in order to assist the implementation team.

Forward compatibility or upward compatibility (sometimes confused with extensibility) is a compatibility concept for systems design, as is backward compatibility.

Connections are such that they also permit forward compatibility, that is, running USB 3.0 devices on USB 2.0 ports.

Forward compatibility as well as online compatibility with the new Eagle Dynamics title DCS: Black Shark.

Forward compatibility is harder to achieve than backward compatibility because a system needs to cope gracefully with an unknown future data format or requests for unknown future features.

The designers of SATA aimed for backward and forward compatibility with future revisions of the SATA standard.

GS takes into account some of the criticism of simplicity of original General MIDI standard, while retaining full forward compatibility and even some backward compatibility.