hollow-moe 23 hours ago

Spec says Y, Chrome does X, all its forks do X, web devs expect X, Firefox, Safari etc. must implement X, spec is rewritten to say X. It's as simple as that.

  • rrr_oh_man 23 hours ago

    It's like the UN, basically

    • lukan 23 hours ago

      It is like power works since probably forever.

adzm 22 hours ago

Are there any more examples other than the newlines thing?

  • lukebitts 22 hours ago

    The only reason I clicked on the link was to read a list of examples, but for some reason the author seems to really want to define what a situationship is instead, disappointing

  • throwaway646233 15 hours ago

    I worked on Internet Explorer implementing part of the SVG spec. There was one case where the spec said one thing and the other browser vendors did something different, so I got buy-in to declare the spec as incorrect and matched the prevailing behavior.