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Disagree with implementers coming after authors, profoundly.

• im3w1l 3y ago
  There are billions of users, probably 10's of millions of people of people writing html, 10s of thousands of implementers and 100s of designers. A tiny improvement for a huge group can outweigh many drawbacks for a smaller one.
  • nazgul17 3y ago
    It's probably right in this context, but I'd be careful with the last part in general contexts: assuming utility is linear makes for easy reasoning but also would say that a mild stomach ache for every single human (i.e. 7*10⁹ stomach aches) is worth more than the life of someone.
  • lolinder 3y ago
    But when designing a standard, if you ignore the needs of implementers you can accidentally write yourself into a place where it becomes impossible for new implementers to completely implement the spec, so we're locked to our existing implementations. I don't think that HTML has this problem so much, but it's absolutely an issue with both CSS and JavaScript.
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• andirk 3y ago
  In the movie Tron, a user is this worst thing a program can encounter. > Greetings, programs! Oh, what an occasion we have here before us. Because your rumors are true. We do indeed have in our midst a User! (Can't find the 1982 quote, but this one from some 2010 redo gets the point across)