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 <m...@mozilla.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Panos Astithas <p...@mozilla.com> 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.)
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