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Comment by makmanalp

16 years ago

Another interesting thing is exploring being pedantically standards compliant (breaking usefulness sometimes) versus bending standards (in the expense of encouraging bad practice)

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tlrobinson  16 years ago

Good old Postel's Law.

If all browsers actually paid attention to Content-Type then this site probably would have fixed the actual problem. Instead we have a world where it works in only some browsers, and naïve users consider the one that is technically more correct to be "broken".