How Robustness Failed Us
Robby Slaughter has a well written post up titled How Robustness Failed Us which runs along the lines of Joel Spolsky’s recent Martian Headsets tongue in cheek metaphor to explain interoperability, the debate between pragmatists and standardistas, and the Internet Explorer 8 dilemma.
If anything comes out of this discussion it will be a firm understanding of the debt we owe all owe to Postel’s Law (also known as the Robustness Principle).