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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.



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On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Dean Landolt <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=
=3D"mailto:dean at deanlandolt.com">dean at deanlandolt.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:=
<div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margi=
n:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div>I know many of us in the ES community tend =
to prefer a Postel&#39;s Law approach -- and=A0as long as tabs are always p=
roperly stringified it&#39;s not a huge interop problem. Still, an argument=
 could be made that with browsers accepting known-bad input (per the JSON s=
pec) it could=A0encourage=A0fragmentation (albeit it minor) of the one form=
at that&#39;s really delivered on the promise of true interoperability.</di=
v>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. On the web, as the sorry histor=
y of browsers shows too clearly, Eich&#39;s law may be the more relevant on=
e:</div><div><br></div><div>From Dave Herman&#39;s blog at &lt;<a href=3D"h=
ttp://calculist.blogspot.com/2010/02/eichs-law.html">http://calculist.blogs=
pot.com/2010/02/eichs-law.html</a>&gt;:</div>
<div><br></div></div><blockquote class=3D"webkit-indent-blockquote" style=
=3D"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div class=3D"gmail_qu=
ote">Found this gem in a C++ comment while <a href=3D"http://mxr.mozilla.or=
g/mozilla-central/source/js/src/jsscan.cpp#1464">digging
 in the SpiderMonkey codebase</a>:</div><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockqu=
ote>After much testing,=20
it&#39;s clear that Postel&#39;s advice to protocol designers (&quot;be lib=
eral in=20
what you accept, and conservative in what you send&quot;) invites a=20
natural-law repercussion for JS as &quot;protocol&quot;:</blockquote></div>=
<div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote>&quot;If you are=20
liberal in what you accept, others will utterly fail to be conservative=20
in what they send.&quot;</blockquote></div><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div>=
The comment is unsigned, but it sounds=20
like Brendan.=A0</div></div></blockquote><br clear=3D"all"><br>-- <br>=A0 =
=A0 Cheers,<br>=A0 =A0 --MarkM<br>

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