On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Dean Landolt <d...@deanlandolt.com> wrote:
> I know many of us in the ES community tend to prefer a Postel's Law > approach -- and as long as tabs are always properly stringified it's not a > huge interop problem. Still, an argument could be made that with browsers > accepting known-bad input (per the JSON spec) it > could encourage fragmentation (albeit it minor) of the one format that's > really delivered on the promise of true interoperability. > Yes. On the web, as the sorry history of browsers shows too clearly, Eich's law may be the more relevant one: >From Dave Herman's blog at < http://calculist.blogspot.com/2010/02/eichs-law.html>: Found this gem in a C++ comment while digging in the SpiderMonkey codebase<http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/js/src/jsscan.cpp#1464> : After much testing, it's clear that Postel's advice to protocol designers ("be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send") invites a natural-law repercussion for JS as "protocol": "If you are liberal in what you accept, others will utterly fail to be conservative in what they send." The comment is unsigned, but it sounds like Brendan. -- Cheers, --MarkM
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