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Re:Torvalds: Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my but... by protomyth on Saturday March 26, 2011 @04:44PM (#2373128)
If early web browsers has stuck to the spec and rejected all "bad" inputs, then web probably would have been a better place today. Sometimes the user's interests are in the future not in the now.
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Re:Torvalds: Standards are paper. I use paper to wipe my but... by s3graham on Sunday March 27, 2011 @03:14AM (#2374441)
Or maybe it would be as popular as gopher, and we'd all still be ftp'ing shit around.
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