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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...
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.
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.