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What's the funniest legitimate non-joke standardization detail you've come across?
I enjoy that the original draft for the Referer header spelled it wrong, and now we're all stuck with the typo forever...
Can someone elaborate on this please?
Edit: oh jeez. I'm so used to reading "referer" I didn't even realize it was a typo.
I'd be happy if we'd just accepted "referer" as the correct spelling for everything, but instead we have the "Referrer-Policy" header, so now I need to check the correct spelling for anything involving referring..
I do sort of like the idea that because we want to keep backwards compatibility on software we just change the language instead since that's easier.