- From: Andrew Sidwell <takkaria@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:40:00 +0100
- To: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- CC: HTML Working Group <public-html@w3.org>
Robert Burns wrote: > > Charset attribute > > Suggest adding charset attribute to root element rather than adding a > charset name to the <meta> element. This will be easier for authors to > use. It will also be easier for UAs to pre-parse. (Rob Burns) The rationale for the <meta charset=""> attribute combination is that UAs already implement it, because people tend to leave things unquoted, like: <META HTTP-EQUIV=Content-Type CONTENT=text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1> Thus, adding an element to the root element would add yet another place UAs have to check for charset data. Andrew Sidwell
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