>RFCs are meant to maintain some semblance of a standard. If systems
>blatantly break these standards, they are running the risk of having a
>limited compatability with their new standards. I prefer the usual
>aaabbb@domain myself, keeps things simple :)
I fully agree, and I think that business is what ruins all good stuff in
computer technology nowdays. It seems stupid to say we should always do what
the users want... Should we not follow standards? Well, nor Netscape neither
Internet Explorer are fully compatible with the original HTML4 standard:
they accept invalid syntax (like bad usage of remarks) and so on. They do
this because "the users might use invalid tags and syntax, so let's still
work fine". We can see the result of this: if you make a new site, you have
to check it in all browsers and sometimes do very complicated tricks so that
you will have the same layout in all browsers. THIS happens if you do not
follow standards.
There are billions of examples where we have to prefer user stupidity and
their wishes because they do not take the time to learn even the basics of
the Internet. We use .com instead of .net because the mind of an average
user is limited to only one TLD. You have to have your domain starting with
"www", because they cannot imagine a website starting with something else.
RFCs are the things that make the Internet work. Let's not stop following
them! Not us! (...and leave non-standard programming to Microsoft.)
- Csongor
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