How about: when someone has mistyped a link with spaces.
In Netscape Communicator if it came across such a link it would show an
error first in fine print abount the Apache Sever version then either a
400 error or 404 error. According to W3C standards this is correct action.

In Mozilla and Netscape 7 they automatically insert %20 where the spaces
are located and thus allowing link to work. This is some what equivelent
to IE's action of self-healing a site which has missing tags. 

Here is an example:
http://www.ce.org/standards/standards_listing.asp?id=prod_cat&id2=380&name=Direct-View
Analog Color TV

Notice =Direct-View Analog Color TV should be written either as:

=Direct-ViewAnalogColorTV or

=Direct-View_Analog_Color_TV

Netscape Communicator Properly dies at the first space and throws up a
400 error

While in Mozilla or N7, they insert:
=Direct-View%20Analog%20Color%20TV

This allows the page to come up.  Its self-healing. An action which has
had much negative comments about IE's self healing in the Moz newsgroups
as stepping around standards allowing sloppy code.

Appently Mozilla bugs about are marked WONTFIX. Because even though
technically it is off standards the developers like it. (Thus promoting
wrong formating of webpage titles.)

Brant Langer Gurganus wrote:
> 
> I am trying to come up with a document for bug 74263 involving where
> Mozilla has intentionally deviated from the standards.  If you know of
> where Mozilla has done this, please let me know.  I know about <blink>
> and <marquee>.  Please make sure your replies go to the
> netscape.public.mozilla.documentation list only.
> --
> Brant Langer Gurganus
> Default QA Contact, Europe: West
> Mozilla Technology Evangelism

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