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The following extract shows how a messaging client’s text entry could be arbitrarily restricted to a fixed number of characters, thus forcing any conversation through this medium to be terse and discouraging intelligent discourse.
<label>What are you doing? <input name=status maxlength=140></label>
HTML specification - whatwg.org
►http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-input-element-attributes.html#attr-input-maxlength