- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 08:12:38 -0600
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote: > So if what the spec requires isn't your top consideration you probably > shouldn't care whether it requires or just allows ignoring the HTTP > content-type. Please don't be ridiculous. The meaning of that statement is that the spec is less important than reality when making decisions. That doesn't imply that he or any other browser developer 'doesn't care' what the spec says. It's quite the opposite in fact; it's in everyone's best interests that the spec declare something that matches reality, so that corner cases aren't different between impls and they don't have to waste QA time and money on checking if the way other browsers do things is better. The willingness to ignore the spec when it's incorrect is not a statement that the spec is worthless, as long as the spec is willing to update itself. ~TJ
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