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storborg on Jan 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Search: .lenght - Github

Perhaps the same reason why "referer" has not been corrected to "referrer".

kaffeinecoma on Jan 14, 2012 [–]

Yes, it was exactly like that- lots of code had grown around the "bug", and it was not immediately obvious what other software had come to depend upon it. "Little hairs", as Joel might say.

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