Postel's Robustness Principle
Updated: 2010-02-26 09:29:00
Interesting comment from the trenches: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."Found here: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/js/src/jsscan.cpp#1464 while looking at SpiderMonkey source code.
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