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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by bjtitus on Thursday May 21, 2020 @02:04PM (#23262291)
The comment was edited to show that iOS does in fact do this.

But even if it did send HEIC, if you're going to fail to handle "any" format, then you better specify the one you can handle. By the same token, why shouldn't my computer convert every .docx to PDF, or some other "more universal" format?

Instead of specifying the requirement programmatically, they spent their time sending out tweets and writing help docs.

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by derefr on Thursday May 21, 2020 @04:21PM (#23264563)
> Instead of specifying the requirement programmatically, they spent their time sending out tweets and writing help docs.

Point of order: separate people, with separate/independent/concurrent job responsibilities. It very likely wasn't the programmers tweeting and writing docs. (Heck, I expect that the College Board doesn't even retain any full-time programmers, only contracts with firms for projects.)

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by braythwayt on Thursday May 21, 2020 @09:03PM (#23267626)
Separate people, yes, and we should not blame the people sending out the tweets. But we can hold the organziation they belong to responsible.

It's the same as if Apple shipped me an empty box instead of my iPad Pro. Of course I can't blame the customer support person who takes my call, and I shouldn't be rude to them. But I would still blame Apple the corporation for such a thing, had it happened.

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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by nitrogen on Thursday May 21, 2020 @02:14PM (#23262490)
When was the accept attribute added to the input tag?
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Re:Students are failing AP tests because the College Board c... by bchociej on Thursday May 21, 2020 @02:32PM (#23262807)
I was surprised by this, but at least as early as September 2008: https://github.com/whatwg/html/commit/c67bb312ac44737c6c175b...
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