[c3534l]

Right. It's not a bug if it's the intended behavior. It's merely insanity that this is the intended behavior.

[dotancohen]

Intended behaviour is not expected behaviour. A bug in the spec is still a bug.

[mark-r]

I remember trying to make that point at a former employer, and getting nowhere. Once something was in the spec it was written in stone, no matter how much pain it caused the users.

Unlike Microsoft's case, this one wasn't required for backwards compatibility. It was simply a dumb decision that nobody wanted to revisit.