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When browsers disagree with a web specification, the specification is wrong and must change.

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

What Ian Hickson actually said

  1. Ian Hickson British software engineer
    The WHATWG was founded on this core principle — the specifications need to actually specify reality. When the browsers disagree with the spec, the spec is by definition incorrect and needs to change, regardless of how much technically superior the design in the spec is.

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