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It makes sense for a lot of situations purely out of practicality. If a good portion of your customers use tools that break spec, your choices are to accept the

It makes sense for a lot of situations purely out of practicality. If a good portion of your customers use tools that break spec, your choices are to accept the brokenness or lose the customer. Take browsers, for example. A lot of people complain that browsers try to work around broken certificate setups on servers, but if they didn’t, users would just switch to browsers that did.

avgcorrection 3y ago
> It makes sense for a lot of situations purely out of practicality. If a good portion of your customers use tools that break spec, your choices are to accept the brokenness or lose the customer. Practical? So the adage is just “be liberal because you have to out of practical necessity”? Are you sure that’s the history behind it?