On 11 Oct 2009, at 18:39, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com> wrote: > Can someone please explain, again, why the discussion of default > configurations of a particular category of user agent in various > regions belongs in the definition of the HyperText Markup Language? > > What benefit can any author of a web page derive, please, from > knowing what the default settings of various browsers in products > sold into various language environments? Authors aren't the only target audience of this specification. Implementors benefit from advice suggesting default encodings. Users benefit from consistency in implementations. -- Ian HicksonReceived on Monday, 12 October 2009 02:58:35 GMT
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