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Another interesting thing is exploring being pedantically standards compliant (breaking usefulness sometimes) versus bending standards (in the expense of encour
by makmanalp 17y ago
Another interesting thing is exploring being pedantically standards compliant (breaking usefulness sometimes) versus bending standards (in the expense of encouraging bad practice)
- tlrobinson 17y agoGood old Postel's Law. If all browsers actually paid attention to Content-Type then this site probably would have fixed the actual problem. Instead we have a world where it works in only some browsers, and naïve users consider the one that is technically more correct to be "broken".
- makmanalp 17y agoDidn't know about this, thanks. Further reading: Two viewpoints: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/01/08/postels-law http://diveintomark.org/archives/2004/01/08/postels-law http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/002518.html http://www.dynamicobjects.com/d2r/archives/002518.html