[Cialug] Nuremberg Defense for Standards

[Colin Burnett]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Todd Walton <tdwalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> making
> un-standard improvements to your system is sometimes just a mask for
> the real problem instead of addressing the problem outright.
> Standards provide a meeting point for constructive debate.

Then you get into Postel's Law and following that just mucks things up
by explicitly allowing non-adherence to the standard.  I blame Postel
for the nature of how badly you can mess up HTML, but I've never
understood why browsers do not accept <script /> or <textarea />.


Colin