Indeed, a good argument could be made that the old "quirks mode" years of the web were a strong example of the web suffering a lot while learning this very lesson (and modern web standardization processes work pretty hard to try and avoid it).
Dan On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Martin Thomson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Panos Astithas <[email protected]> wrote: > > This. From the perspective of a library method validating inputs, I've > > always found it pays off to rely on Postel's principle. > > > Sorry, that's a red flag for me. Postel was wrong. (Search for that > phrase.) > _______________________________________________ > firefox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
