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by n3k5 2094 days ago
Yes. I'm not a stickler for 70—80 characters; IMHO the ~200 character lines on HN are excessive, but I can cope. You know, Postel's law: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

I took the aforementioned screenshot on a huge display to illustrate the issue more clearly, but on a garden-variety 1920×1080 monitor — stock Firefox, no extensions that would affect rendering — Fossil wiki's text formatting is still objectively bad.

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Postel's Law is now considered not just obsolete, but a major impediment to fixing security bugs.

Do not wire Postel's Law into anything new.