Still my favourite summary of Twitter: > The following extract shows how a messaging client's text entry could be arbitrarily restricted to a fixed number of c

Still my favourite summary of Twitter: > The following extract shows how a messaging client's text entry could be arbitrarily restricted to a fixed number of characters, thus forcing any conversation through this medium to be terse and discouraging intelligent discourse. > <label>What are you doing? <input name=status maxlength=140></label> -- Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group, https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#attr-input-maxlength https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#attr-input...