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You have to ensure you don't over-engineer specifications or it will be ignored as well. HTTP requests are one thing, imagine if we were strict on HTML validati

You have to ensure you don't over-engineer specifications or it will be ignored as well. HTTP requests are one thing, imagine if we were strict on HTML validation. We now have robust browsers and I am not sure if that is only a bad thing. Although it would be nice if people would check their documents once or twice. edit: I don't think considering the principle as bad is a sensible approach as it doesn't mean to ignore errors in theory.

klodolph 6y ago
> imagine if we were strict on HTML validation You don't have to imagine it, this actually happened. I don't remember the details, but back in the HTML 4 era, there was XHTML, and if you gave it an XML media type, many browsers would parse it as XML and reject the entire document if there was any error (and display nothing at all but an error message). There were a number of articles and blog posts about this back in the day.