On 7/9/2020 3:16 PM, Markus Gothe wrote:
Jon Postel formulated the robustness principle decades ago. Still
today it is a good advice to "be liberal in what you accept and strict
in what you send".
Counterexample: Internet Explorer
It allowed so much garbage to render correctly that other browser
vendors had to work overtime to accept all the same garbage and make
sure it rendered in the same way. Then, subsequently when IE was no
longer defining the standard, progress was hamstrung by needing to be
compatible with its own past allowances lest they be accused of breaking
people intranets. So much so that they just weren't able to fix most of
their bugs and eventually abandoned the project. If they had just
declared tighter standards and enforced the rules, web development might
not have been a misery for an entire decade.
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