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1982? Back then Microsoft's attitude toward the Internet was "embrace, extend, and suffocate." It made little sense for them to work with the nuances of standa
by OliverJones 6y ago
1982? Back then Microsoft's attitude toward the Internet was "embrace, extend, and suffocate." It made little sense for them to work with the nuances of standards, according their business model back then.
I have added this capability to every commercial web property I've worked on.
- inetknght 6y ago> Back then Microsoft's attitude toward the Internet was "embrace, extend, and suffocate." I'm pretty sure that's close to Microsoft's current attitude towards the Internet.
- lucb1e 6y ago> I have added this capability to every commercial web property I've worked on. I tried doing email validation the modern way: if '@' in emailfield then return True else 'email address needs an @'. The user gets a confirmation email anyway, and the sign-up process was literally name, email, tick a box that you read the privacy policy, and click continue, so they can just re-do that if they typo'd the address. Iirc the boss decided to set requirements for a regex that I was to implement instead. Or maybe he made the regex and I tweaked it saying "this won't match .amsterdam domains", not sure anymore.