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Why is this downvoted? Because it violates Postel's law, one of the cornerstones of the technology running the internet: "Be conservative in what you do, be li
by Tepix 8y ago
Why is this downvoted? Because it violates Postel's law, one of the cornerstones of the technology running the internet:
"Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others"
- AnaniasAnanas 8y ago> be liberal in what you accept from others This is a recipe for disaster and code bloat. I met in the past a vulnerability that some irc clients had due to that principle.
- Tepix 8y agoIt depends. There are plenty of harmless examples like removing leading/trailing whitespace when entering a name. Ignoring whitespace, dashes etc. when entering a code, etc. A bit of extra effort by the developers saves a lot of people a lot of time.