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which has had some backlash of late? it seems that one should not be liberal in any capacity because it results in undetected corner-cases https://ardalis.com/
by pmarreck 5y ago
which has had some backlash of late? it seems that one should not be liberal in any capacity because it results in undetected corner-cases
https://ardalis.com/postels-law-robustness-principle/ https://ardalis.com/postels-law-robustness-principle/
https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong-03.html https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong-03....
- l0b0 5y agoPostel's law is for when it's hopeless to get to a sane standard in the near-to-mid term, as with HTML and JS back in the day. Browsers had to implement ridiculously lenient parsing to provide a reasonable user experience on top of terrible markup and scripts.