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This whole article has, to be ragebait - surely? It's such a inane piece of writing, the world needs to give less time to anyone that genuinely holds these views. They're entitled to hold them, but they're still wrong.

>It had an intolerant ideology.

Without going into the various reasons why its trash, conforming to a spec is not intolerance, it's success. Imagine the Brooklyn bridge design committee saying "requiring exactly 1 inch plate is intolerance!! You can't discriminate against different thicknesses, all thicknesses are equally valuable!"

What a useless position to hold.

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This comment breaks HN's guidelines in many ways. Can you please review them and stick to the rules? We're trying for something quite different here.

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p.s. If you meant your comment as an amusing meta play on intolerance, then I'm sorry for misreading. That would of course be much better, but after a bit of wavering I concluded that you actually meant what you were saying here.

Apologies, guidelines noted. Upom reread of my comment, it was less constructive than intended.

Thank you. These are right out of my mouth. I mean I'd have made a similar comment if I didn't worry the strong words would get me flagged.

The whole article is weird af. How are tolerating XHTML syntax error and tolerating different sexualities remotely comparable? The metaphor stretches itself so thin that you can see the fallacies beneath.

> Imagine the Brooklyn bridge design committee saying "requiring exactly 1 inch plate is intolerance!!

The Brooklyn bridge is a singular piece of infrastructure that millions depend on. I think it makes for a bad analogy.

A better analogy would be something more like websites, where people can tinker and create and contribute without much consequence. For example, the local community garden's board saying, "Requiring a precise and strictly uniform planting layout and soil composition is intolerance!" Well... that'd be quite reasonable?

It's bad because it makes it harder to implement a browser so the "spec" just becomes whatever the leading implementation supports.

When I clicked on the article, I thought it was going to be about how the web gives a space for all voices even the marginalized or minorities to be seen/heard. Not this nonsense.

Thank you very much for your constructive criticism on my writing. I appreciate the candid feedback.

I must take one small issue though. Every engineering project I've worked on has very definitely specified a tolerance. Something may be X cm ± Y mm.

Tolerance is essential to engineering.

As pointed out my comment was not as constructive as it could have been, apologies for that.

It was a bad morning. I do appreciate being called on it.

However my less dramatic point, that precice protocols and exact requirements is what makes technical projects successful, is what I could have conveyed.

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