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I think one man's flaw might be another man's feature in this case:

> The following extract shows how a messaging client's text entry could be arbitrarily restricted to a fixed number of characters, thus forcing any conversation through this medium to be terse and discouraging intelligent discourse.

    <label>What are you doing? <input name=status maxlength=140></label>

-- https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#attr-input...